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@@ -4,10 +4,7 @@
<title>Mounting virtual kernel file systems</title>
<?dbhtml filename="kernfs.html"?>
-<para>Various file systems exported by the kernel don't exist at all on your
-hard drive, but are used to communicate things to and from the kernel itself.</para>
-
-<para>Begin by creating directories onto which the file systems will be mounted:</para>
+<para>Create the dirs:</para>
<screen><userinput>mkdir -p $LFS/{proc,sys}</userinput></screen>
@@ -16,13 +13,7 @@ hard drive, but are used to communicate things to and from the kernel itself.</p
<screen><userinput>mount -t proc proc $LFS/proc
mount -t sysfs sysfs $LFS/sys</userinput></screen>
-<para>Remember that if for any reason you stop working on your LFS, and start
-again later, it's important to check that these file systems are mounted again
-before entering the chroot environment, otherwise problems could occur.</para>
-
-<para>Shortly, we'll be mounting a few more file systems from within the chroot
-environment. To keep the host up-to-date, we'll do a <quote>fake mount</quote>
-for each of these now:</para>
+<para>Do some <quote>fake mounts</quote>:</para>
<screen><userinput>mount -f -t ramfs ramfs $LFS/dev
mount -f -t tmpfs tmpfs $LFS/dev/shm