On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 1:48 AM, jdd (kim2)<jdd@dodin.org> wrote:
You can to this simply by bind mounting root on a temporary mount point: mount -o bind / /mnt
what is the use of this bind mount?
jdd
jdd, Did you try it? It makes the root filesystem available as /mnt But none of the mounts are carried over, so on my desktop machine, /mnt/home is an empty directly, whereas /home on my machine is a mounted filesystem. So if I had hidden files in /home, they are hidden by the mount and it can be a pain to look underneath the mount. But after the above mount I can look at all of the underlying directories with no issues. A very cool diagnostic approach to this particular issue. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Head of EDD Tape Extraction and Processing team Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer Preservation and Forensic processing of Exchange Repositories White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/tng_whitepaper_fpe.html The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org