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SubjectRe: Use of directories to hold root?

On Aug 10 2007 17:08, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> On Aug 10 2007 17:24, Mark Cannon wrote:
>>> You pass the kernel the root option to specify the root partition.
>>> Is there a way to identify a directory in that partition that holds the
>>> root or something equivalent to this?
>>
>> No, but you can use pivot_root.
>
>Or better yet, use an initramfs with MS_MOVE; same as you would with the
>"normal" use of initramfs.

mount --move /foo /
=> error

What did I miss?



Jan
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