I should add that you do the bind mount *before* you chroot. And that the
same directories should be excluded from what you try to copy across file
systems.

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Christian Paro <[email protected]>wrote:

> If you're going the chroot route, you'll want to bind-mount /dev /proc and
> /sys into the directory that you'll chroot into. This will make these
> in-memory-only filesystems accessible within your chrooted environment.
>
> See here:
>
> http://fermilinux.fnal.gov/documentation/tips/mount-bind-chroot
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Victor Echavarry Diaz <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Mark:
>>
>> I try this
>>
>> L104M:/# mount /var
>> mount /var
>> mount: special device /dev/system/var does not exist
>> L104M:/#
>>
>> And this
>>
>> L104M:/# ls
>> ls
>> --one-file-system  bin   dismount  lib         media  opt   roottmp  sys
>>  var
>> Oracle             boot  etc       lib64       mnt    proc  sbin     tmp
>> THIS_IS_THE_NEW    dev   home      lost+found  netiq  root  srv      usr
>> L104M:/# mount /dev/system/var /var
>> mount /dev/system/var /var
>> L104M:/#
>>
>> And get the same error message
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Víctor Echavarry
>> System Programmer
>> Technology Systems & Operations Division
>> EVERTEC
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
>> Mark Post
>> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 6:17 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: Move root from LVM to Non-LVM File System
>>
>> >>> On 3/18/2010 at 05:53 PM, Victor Echavarry Diaz <
>> [email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > After chroot, I do mkinitrd and receive the following message
>> >
>> > /var/tmp is not a directory
>>
>> OK, then, after the chroot, but before the mkinitrd:
>> mount /var
>>
>> and try again.
>>
>>
>> Mark
>>
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