mount --bind

[Nils Philippsen]

On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 07:54, Doncho N. Gunchev wrote:
> On Friday 24 October 2003 17:41, Nils Philippsen wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 16:18, Carlos Rodrigues wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > I intend to mount a directory in another location with "mount --bind"
> > > and I wanted to know if there is a way to automate this by putting it
> > > somewhere like /etc/fstab. I can put it in /etc/init.d/rc.local but I
> > > would rather do this in a more "elegant" way.
> >
> > "mount --bind" is the same as "mount -o bind", so a line like
> >
> > /my/old/dir	/my/new/dir	none	bind	0 0
> >
> > should work.
> >
> > Nils
> Works, I have a lot of --bind mounts. The only problem is I am getting 
> something like "umount2: can't unmount ...., not mounted" when rebooting, 
> which is ignorable - no damage/problems caused to the fs at all... I think it 
> has to do something with my "crossmounts" (--bind inside --bind-ed dir). I do 
> --bind my /var/ftp to /var/www/html/ftp and some yum stuff inside bouth.

Please file this in Bugzilla -- though I don't know what component is
guilty (kernel ./. util-linux(mount) ./. initscripts) ;-).

Nils
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