From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 30 23:22:14 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 103F416A4DF for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:22:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A14AB43D6E for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:22:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from frontend3.internal (frontend3.internal [10.202.2.152]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E701CDA0B9A for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:22:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.internal ([10.202.2.160]) by frontend3.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:22:12 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: mvvPxd+H+mKsrGTk5cSlPWykvPV9uCTU1GQTIt47iPsb 1156980131 Received: from [192.168.1.2] (bb-87-81-140-128.ukonline.co.uk [87.81.140.128]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD962795B for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:22:11 -0400 (EDT) From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:22:03 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <200608302124.21833.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> <20060830165204.AC8F.GERARD@seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <20060830165204.AC8F.GERARD@seibercom.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200608310022.05206.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Subject: Re: Mounting Linux Procfs at Boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:22:14 -0000 On Wednesday 30 August 2006 21:55, Gerard Seibert wrote: > RW wrote: > > What's the canonical way of mounting the Linux procfs at boot-time? > > > > I've seen several recommendations to add the following to fstab: > > > > linproc /compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw 0 0 > > > > But in a standard installation, this mount-point is really under /usr, > > which isn't mounted until pass 2. If I change the pass number to 2, it > > fails with an "unexpected inconsistencies" error. I presume this is > > because mount is trying to fsck it, and failing to find fsck_linprocfs. > > This is what I have in my /etc/fstab file: > > linprocfs /compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw 0 0 > > Is this what you are referring to? I tried it and it didn't work. Irrespective of whether it should begin linproc or linprocfs, /compat is a link to /usr/compat, and /usr isn't mounted at that point. Do you have a different arrangement? BTW I'm running 6.1 (upgraded from an original 5.3 install)