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Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 21:34:06 +0100
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] /tmp dissappearance
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a simpler way might be to:

    mount -c /srv/fossil /n/fossil
    mkdir /n/fossil/tmp

always assuming you are using fossil and you have write permission in /
which probably means you must be hostowner.

-Steve


On 20 May 2012, at 07:04 PM, Anthony Sorace <a@9srv.net> wrote:

> On May 20, 2012, at 13:29 , David du Colombier wrote:
>
>> echo fsys main create /tmp sys sys d775 >>/srv/fscons
>
> turn that "/tmp" into "/active/tmp" i think, no?
>
> also, for the original question: as a quick hack to get around
> this, i believe you could run mntgen on / so that /tmp magically
> shows up when you bind to it.
>
> the "mounted directory forbids creation" sounds suspect, though.
> trying to bind onto a non-existent target should yield a simple
> "file does not exist".
>
> and, of course, that doesn't address why it went away.
> anthony
>