Sorry for the new email, I just joined the mailing list. Jon, can you define exactly what your requirements are? So far I have seen the need to start applications which use sockets and logging and than transfer those sockets/logs into the new root for use after pivot root. What is stoping you from doing something like this?: mount -t tmpfs none /var/run/dbus/ mount -t tmpfs none /var/log start dbus start syslog ... do stuff ... mount new root mount --move /var/run/dbus /path/to/new/root/var/run/dbus stop syslog cat /var/log/messages >> /path/to/new/root/var/log/messages ln -s /path/to/new/root/var/log/messages /var/log/messages start syslog pivot root (Though of course this breaks syslog in more ways than one. ;)) Nathaniel -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list