Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 14:37:21 -0000 From: "Steven Hartland" <killing@multiplay.co.uk> To: "Eric Anderson" <anderson@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysinstall creates corrupt filesystems after repartitioning Message-ID: <00ac01c75cd8$4e5d57e0$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> References: <00cb01c75c5b$4205e390$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> <45E82660.4030107@freebsd.org> <008101c75cd1$42a4df10$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> <45E830A8.8020104@freebsd.org>
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Eric Anderson wrote:
> On 03/02/07 07:46, Steven Hartland wrote:
> Mounting an NFS share on top of a skimmed down /usr is very common,
> and very desirable. You may mount /usr from a small read-only
> partition (vnode file, etc) and then mount a different partition or
> NFS over it if you detect the one you want.
>
> I think this comes down to: if it hurts, stop doing it. :)
>
> Maybe sysinstall should warn you that you are double mounting, but I
> don't want it to stop letting me do it.
Interesting if that's a valid thing to do why does everything
break when its done? Is it ment to be doing a union hence you get
the combined contents of both? If so its not working correctly in
this case :( Can you provide me with more info on how this is
supposed to work eric please.
Steve
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