Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 17:14:21 +0400 From: Sergey Zaharchenko <doublef@tele-kom.ru> To: Alan Gerber <agerber@ncsu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting hard disk in multiple locations Message-ID: <20040624131421.GA22808@shark.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <hztd99.sv8dah@unlateral.dyndns.org> References: <20040624120059.76ED916A4D5@hub.freebsd.org> <hztd99.sv8dah@unlateral.dyndns.org>
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--0OAP2g/MAC+5xKAE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 08:55:57AM -0400, Alan Gerber probably wrote: > Okay folks, help me out with this one. >=20 > I'm trying to mount a single hard disk slice in two separate locations (o= ne > location being r/o and another being r/w), and having a hard time figurin= g out > how to do it. I've tried issuing multiple mount calls, but I get a "Devi= ce > busy" error. You get it because it isn't supposed to work that way. > I've also checked out the mount(8) series of manpages and > haven't found anything. I've also thought about trying to create a separ= ate > device node for this purpose, a la mknod, but I wanted to be sure that wo= n't > do anything overly harsh to the system before I attempt it. >=20 > Any thoughts or suggestions? mount_null(8) is a thing that may help you, though it doesn't do exactly what you are trying to (and is labeled dangerous in the manpage). But AFAICT that's the only way. --=20 DoubleF "I never met a piece of chocolate I didn't like." --0OAP2g/MAC+5xKAE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFA2tOswo7hT/9lVdwRAji+AJ9C/iFVQ7eSYdB6YS6qzMSjUGq/oACfQCph mkHDVvZQqFYZWuuT5DmHd28= =MFOM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0OAP2g/MAC+5xKAE--
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