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SubjectRe: pivot_root broken in 2.6.15-rc1-mm2
FromNix <>
DateFri, 25 Nov 2005 11:52:33 +0000
On 23 Nov 2005, Rob Landley gibbered uncontrollably:
> Rather than unmounting rootfs, it deletes everything out of it to free up the 
> space.  (It basically does the functional equivalent of "find / -xdev | xargs 
> rm -rf"

Er, find / -xdev | xargs rm -f, I hope.
(rm won't respect the -xdev you gave to find, and, well, if your new root is
mounted at all, you're dead :) )

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