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Old 16th May 2008
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Originally Posted by adamk View Post
Theoretically, couldn't you have an /etc directory on the root slice with just /etc/fstab in it? And that /etc/fstab would contain the slice to mount on /etc ? It's an awful, awful, hack, something I would never recommend, but it would probably work.
init runs /etc/rc which will further run other rc scripts that will mount all the non-root FS's. but /etc/rc is on a filesystem that hasn't been mounted yet.
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