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[nealbirch <nealbirch AT attbi.com>]

Chris Brien wrote:
> > From: nealbirch <nealbirch AT attbi.com>
> >
> > > echo     "done."
> > >   mount    -n -o remount,rw /
> > >   echo     > /etc/mtab
> > >   mount    -f -o remount,rw /
> > >   mount    -a -F
> > >   rm       -f /fastboot /forcefsck
> >
> > -F     (Used in conjunction with -a.)  Fork off a  new  incarnation  
> > of mount  for  each  device.   This will do the mounts on different 
> > devices or different NFS servers  in  parallel.   This  has  the 
> > advantage that it is faster; also NFS timeouts go in parallel. A 
> > disadvantage is that the mounts are  done  in  undefined  order. 
> > Thus,  you cannot use this option if you want to mount both /usr and 
> > /usr/spool.
> >
> > -f     Causes everything to be done except for the actual system call; 
> > if  it's  not  obvious, this ``fakes'' mounting the file system.
> > ...It can also be used to add entries for devices that were mounted 
> > earlier with the -n option.
>
>
> As it says right here. Root is mounted first with -n, so there will not 
> be an mtab entry. It's later mounted with -f, so the mtab entry is 
> created without actually remounting.

Ahhh. Thanks, that makes sense.


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