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diff --git a/chapter06/mountproc.xml b/chapter06/mountproc.xml index cfc6f3a6f..27569062d 100644 --- a/chapter06/mountproc.xml +++ b/chapter06/mountproc.xml @@ -3,13 +3,14 @@ <?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> |