Re: Mounting Linux Procfs at Boot

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:22:03 +0100 RW wrote:
On Wednesday 30 August 2006 21:55, Gerard Seibert wrote:
RW wrote:
What's the canonical way of mounting the Linux procfs at boot-time?

I've seen several recommendations to add the following to fstab:

linproc /compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw 0 0

But in a standard installation, this mount-point is really under /usr,
which isn't mounted until pass 2. If I change the pass number to 2, it
fails with an "unexpected inconsistencies" error. I presume this is
because mount is trying to fsck it, and failing to find fsck_linprocfs.

This is what I have in my /etc/fstab file:

linprocfs /compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw 0 0

Is this what you are referring to?

I tried it and it didn't work. Irrespective of whether it should begin linproc
or linprocfs, /compat is a link to /usr/compat, and /usr isn't mounted at
that point. Do you have a different arrangement?

Can't confirm that the problem exists:
$ uname -a
FreeBSD srv.sem.ipt.ru 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #2: Wed May 17 23:26:59 MSD 2006 bsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SRV i386

But what do you mean "/usr isn't mounted at that point?". Have you
read man fstab?

BTW I'm running 6.1 (upgraded from an original 5.3 install)

Usually an output of "uname -a" is much more informative here. 6.1 may
mean release, release + security patches, stable... And a platform
also is of interest here.


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