Re: Use of directories to hold root?

On Aug 10 2007 17:24, Mark Cannon wrote:
>
>You pass the kernel the root option to specify the root partition.
>Is there a way to identify a directory in that partition that holds the
>root or something equivalent to this?

No, but you can use pivot_root.



	Jan
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