Recurring problem in root filesystem

[Jeff Beadles]

brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:

>Wait a minute. Can't you chroot() to another filesystem, then remount
>the original root below the new one? I haven't tested this but it seems
>like it should work on an otherwise unused system.

You can't mount the same physical partition on a local system twice.
(You can via NFS though, but fsck is useless there :-)

Doesn't the SYSV 3.2 fsck do something like remounting the root filesystem?  I
haven't looked at that area of the code, but I recall some strange looking
message when I had non-fatal problems on the root fs that was fixed...

	-Jeff
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