Changeset 57a5ecf

Timestamp:

09/13/2002 04:24:47 AM (22 years ago)

Author:

Gerard Beekmans <gerard@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.0-rc1, 10.1, 10.1-rc1, 11.0, 11.0-rc1, 11.0-rc2, 11.0-rc3, 11.1, 11.1-rc1, 11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, 6.0, 6.1, 6.1.1, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.5-systemd, 7.6, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.7-systemd, 7.8, 7.8-systemd, 7.9, 7.9-systemd, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, ml-11.0, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, v4_0, v4_1, v5_0, v5_1, v5_1_1, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

3a3b76e

Parents:

b464a72

Message:

made the mtab link command an 'ln -sf' since mount may create /etc/mtab when mounting proc

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2103 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

Files:

• chapter01/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• chapter06/mtablink.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter01/changelog.xml

@@ -57 +57 @@
 </para></listitem>
 
+<listitem><para>September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Create mtab
+link: Made the <userinput>ln</userinput> command an <userinput>ln
+-sf</userinput> so the existing <filename>/etc/mtab</filename> file, created
+by the <userinput>mount</userinput> command, will be removed before
+re-creating it as a symlink.</para></listitem>
+
 <listitem><para>September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Sh-utils: Added
 the sh-utils-hostname patch that supresses the build of the hostname

chapter06/mtablink.xml

@@ -7 +7 @@
 This is done using the following command:</para>
 
-<para><screen><userinput>ln -s /proc/mounts /etc/mtab</userinput></screen></para>
+<para><screen><userinput>ln -sf /proc/mounts /etc/mtab</userinput></screen></para>
 
 <para>Creating this symlink avoids problems which can occur if