This isn't true at all. The reason that there's no documentation that you need to do anything special for mountall to support /var on a separate partition is because you don't! You've pasted the appropriate lines from /lib/init/fstab for /var/run and /var/lock and as you can see, they both have the "showthrough" mount option
These causes mountall to take special action to mount /var, with these filesystems mounted on it and under it ** Package changed: mountall (Ubuntu) => initramfs-tools (Ubuntu) -- /var on separate partition fails at boot time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/555780 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
