On 22/09/06, Ira Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The language of the man page is weird in that section, and has some grammatical errors, and I just could not figure out the difference between bind and rbind...
If I got it right - --bind will only "mount" the filesystem you specify (e.g. if you rebind "/" then you will only see files under "/" in the newly bound location, but not, e.g. /home if it's on a separate partition). --rbind will bind all the filesystems mounted underneath the one specified (my guess - "recursive --bind"). It's probably more of a syntactic sugar than anything else - you can achieve the same with multiple --bind calls.
but either way, I'm happy to say I learned some new stuff. I never noticed the --(r)bind options before, I learned of the existance of Statifier (which would have helped me in some other places) and I was happy to discover the existance of the ia32-libs packages in Debian, I thought they threw them out of "pure64" and I never actually looked for them again, silly me! They actually solved my problem :-)
It's amazing what you can learn even from a simple pointer to the man pages - just like Nadav's reference to iptables' "--owner" module made my quest for Skype traffic counting possible. Cheers, --Amos -- "Military justice is to justice what military music is to music" ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
