on Fri, 22 Apr 2011 04:30 in the Usenet newsgroup gmane.linux.mageia.user Balcaen John wrote:
> On Thursday 21 April 2011 14:12:10, blind Pete wrote: >> How do you bind (a part of) a file system in /etc/fstab? >> >> "man fstab" says that the third field should be "none" >> for bind or move mounts, but what should the rest of the >> line be? >> >> There is now an error message during the boot sequence about >> there not being any such file system as "none". > > /path/to/the/original/folder /path/to/the/bind/folder none bind > > should work. That is what I thought, but there were major problems when I tried; / /mnt/mageia none bind and a few other variations like noauto, ro, etc. It seems to not like remounting the entire file system. Perhaps there is a recursion problem? Thanks. -- blind Pete Sig goes here...
