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In message <3CD045FB.7060902@tenebras.com>, Michael Sierchio writes:
>Union filesytem is currently "busted" AFAIK in 4.5.  Perhaps Terry

I never said anything about using union filesystems; you can just
mount another filesystem directly over /, and it hides the underlying
root filesystem. This is no different from the way that mounting
/usr hides anything that might have been in the /usr directory
before it was mounted on.

Ian

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