This is not exactly what I wanted. I will try to elaborate myself. I am creating my own device which will act as a new boot slice which must be mounted as '/'. New device will process i/o calls and then redirect the i/o calls to original device of '/'. Now since I cannot unmount '/' and mount it again with my new device while system is running, I will have to find a way to tell kernel to mount my new device as '/' from next time onwards it boots. does anyone have suggestions on this?
Thanks, --Tapan. On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:10 AM, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:36:52PM +0530, Tapan Chaudhari wrote: > > Hi All, > > I am new to FreeBSD and this mailing list as well. > > What I want to achieve is change the device of my mount point '/'(or any > > other mount point) after I reboot the machine. I have some knowledge > about > > initrd in Linux in which I can change the device for '/' and than reboot > the > > machine so that it takes a new device for '/'. > > How can I achieve this in FreeBSD? I am using the latest release 7.0. Any > > pointers will be helpful. > > I think you're looking for the loader variables rootdev or > root.vfs.mountrootfsfrom. > > -- > | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | > | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | > | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | > | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | > > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
