Re: Loopback mount in fstab fails

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Hi.

On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 14:12:06 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Fri, 2019-08-16 at 09:58 -0300, George N. White III wrote:
>> Can you boot from live media? If so, you could just rename `/newvar` to
>> `/var` and edit fstab.

> I may have to do that as /var is too central to booting even in single-
> user mode.

I would try to add to the kernel params: init=/bin/bash
then: "mount -o remount,rw /", rename the new directory to /var,
"sync" and "reboot -f"

It used to work.

-- 
francis
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