On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Klaus Kreil <klaus.kreil@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> You need to give absolute paths: >> >> mount -t overlayfs overlayfs -o >> lowerdir=/mnt/root_ro,upperdir=/mnt/root_rw/upper,workdir=/mnt/root_rw/work >> /mnt/root >> > Thanks Miklos, > I had tried that before, but that did not/does not work as well. The new > command (adjusted to my environment and from within the rescue-shell and > all within a single line) was: > # mount -t overlayfs overlayfs -o > lowerdir=/mnt/root_ro,upperdir=/mnt/root_rw,workdir=/mnt/root_rw/.work > /mnt/root > > The new error message from dmesg now reads: > [ 1369.069178] overlayfs: workdir and upperdir must be separate subtrees Exactly. Observe that I used upperdir=/mnt/root_rw/upper. Thanks, Miklos -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-unionfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
