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@ 1994-11-18  6:52 forsyth
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From: forsyth @ 1994-11-18  6:52 UTC (permalink / raw)



>>I was caught by this when I tried to tar up my home directory and my
>>bin and tmp both sent tar rampaging through the filesystem.  This is
>>even trickier than symbolic links.  

mount -ct /srv/boot /n/boot

then under /n/boot no binds or mounts are active; it's just a tree.
this also avoids trying to read things in /dev or /net.






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