Re: altroot
Greg Troxel <[email protected]>
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Edgar Fuß <[email protected]> writes: > Whats the point of /altroot? hier(7) says "Alternate root file system, > in case of disaster." Is there a way to boot such that / is not inode 2, > but that of altroot? From long ago practice, this presumes that altroot is a separate disk partition, and that you have / and /usr separate too. So you'd tell the bootloader to boot from the altroot partition instead, and presumably it is mounted at /altroot when up so you can write to it.