On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 04:56:58PM +0200, Bernhard Voelker wrote: > On 08/21/2014 02:48 PM, Dave Reisner wrote: > > Files can be mountpoints, too. > > just out of curiosity - how? > > $ touch /tmp/mountpoint > $ mount -t proc proc /tmp/mountpoint > mount: mount point /tmp/mountpoint is not a directory > > Thanks & have a nice day, > Berny You cannot mount a file on a directory, but you can mount a file on a file. Cheers, d -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html