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From: jeff@onion.pdx.com (Jeff Beadles)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Recurring problem in root filesystem
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Date: 6 Sep 90 03:50:57 GMT
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brnstnd@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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