On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 05:00:21PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> I wonder how to umount a unionfs within an environment where /etc/ is > >> read-only. I can mount the unionfs with mount -n but wonder how to refer > >> to the mounted unionfs without having an entry in mtab. Does mount -n -t > >> unionfs do the trick? Perhaps together with the -a option? > > > >Some people make /etc/mtab a symlink to /proc/mounts. > > > Correction. Some distributions make it. It leads to all sorts of weird > problems, too.
Yes, it is a hack, but it gets you far enough. The major problem to my knowledge is the fact that some filesystems don't include the entire options string in the /proc/mounts. Jeff. _______________________________________________ unionfs mailing list [email protected] http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/mailman/listinfo/unionfs
