Bug 18673 – /proc mount command is incorrect

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: [OLD] Docs-user

[Description Joe Kallar (RETIRED) 2003-04-02 22:37:15 UTC]

Code listing 8.3: Prepping and entering the chroot environment
# mount -t proc proc /mnt/gentoo/proc

should be:
# mount -0 bind proc proc /mnt/gentoo/proc

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Attempt to mount /proc
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3.

Actual Results:  
Mount proc using codelisting results in mount error

Expected Results:  
Mount /proc correctly

[Comment 1 Jon Portnoy (RETIRED) 2003-04-02 22:41:05 UTC]

mount -t proc proc /mnt/gentoo/proc is actually correct syntax. This has been discussed before... it used to be -o bind, however that was determined to be unnecessary as proc is going to be the same no matter where you mount it and bind is redundant.

Closing bug as invalid.

[Comment 2 Joe Kallar (RETIRED) 2003-04-03 09:47:26 UTC]

My mistake.

I used this command on Sparc, and it gave me the error. I did not use the command on x86. Should the command work on Sparc?

[Comment 3 Jon Portnoy (RETIRED) 2003-04-03 11:29:34 UTC]

I see no reason why not. What was the error?

[Comment 4 Joe Kallar (RETIRED) 2003-04-03 11:58:24 UTC]

Must be a delayed April's fools thing. The command *exactly* followed works fine.