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diff --git a/chapter06/mountproc.xml b/chapter06/mountproc.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..953a57822 --- /dev/null +++ b/chapter06/mountproc.xml @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +<sect1 id="ch06-proc"> +<title>Mounting $LFS/proc file system</title> +<?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> + +<para>If you're still logged in as user "lfs", you should log out and log +in again as user root. The reason for this is simple: only root is allowed +to mount filesystems and to run chroot.</para> + +<para>The proc file system is mounted under $LFS/proc by running the +following command. We'll also chown it to user root/group root while we're +at it (the rest of the filesystem is chown'ed to root:root in a minute when +we start with chapter 6).</para> + +<para><screen><userinput>mount proc /proc -t proc</userinput></screen></para> + +</sect1> + |