Re: The reason to call it 3.0 is the desktop (was Re: [OT] 2.6 not 3.0 - (NUMA)) (fwd)

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Sun Oct 13 2002 - 20:09:34 EST


> Logically, the second /var mount should be "mount --move /initrd/var /var",
> followed by "umount /initrd" to free up the initrd memory. Right now it's
> doing "mount -n --bind /initrd/var /var", because /etc is a symlink into /var
> (has to remain editable, you see), and this way the information about which
> partition var actually is can be kept in one place. (This is an
> implementation detail: I could have used volume labels instead.)
>
> The point is, right now I can't free the initial ramdisk because it has an
> active mount point under it..

umount -l
mount --move

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