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authorGerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>2002-05-28 00:52:20 +0000
committerGerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>2002-05-28 00:52:20 +0000
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applied Alex' procandshuffle patch
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<?dbhtml filename="proc.html" dir="chapter06"?>
<para>In order for certain programs to function properly, the proc file
-system must be mounted and available from within the chroot'ed environment
-as well. It's not a problem to mount the proc file system (or any other
-file system for that matter) twice or even more than that.</para>
+system must be available from within the chroot'ed environment.
+A file system can be mounted as many times and in as many places
+as you'd like, so it's not a problem that the proc file system is already
+mounted on your host system, especially so because proc is a
+virtual file system.</para>
<para>The proc file system is mounted under $LFS/proc by running the
-following command. Note that we don't use the $LFS variable because we
-are now in chroot.</para>
+following command.</para>
<para><screen><userinput>mount proc /proc -t proc</userinput></screen></para>