[Mageia-discuss] bind in fstab

[Maarten Vanraes]

Op vrijdag 22 april 2011 06:54:05 schreef blind Pete:
> 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.

i don't think remounting with bind options is going to work...

your line should bind / to /mnt/mageia (i hope you're not trying the other way 
around...)