On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 08:55:57AM -0400, Alan Gerber probably wrote: > Okay folks, help me out with this one. > > I'm trying to mount a single hard disk slice in two separate locations (one > location being r/o and another being r/w), and having a hard time figuring out > how to do it. I've tried issuing multiple mount calls, but I get a "Device > busy" error.
You get it because it isn't supposed to work that way. > I've also checked out the mount(8) series of manpages and > haven't found anything. I've also thought about trying to create a separate > device node for this purpose, a la mknod, but I wanted to be sure that won't > do anything overly harsh to the system before I attempt it. > > Any thoughts or suggestions? mount_null(8) is a thing that may help you, though it doesn't do exactly what you are trying to (and is labeled dangerous in the manpage). But AFAICT that's the only way. -- DoubleF "I never met a piece of chocolate I didn't like."
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