Mounting Linux Procfs at Boot

Gerard Seibert gerard at seibercom.net
Wed Aug 30 21:10:02 UTC 2006


RW wrote:

> What's the canonical way of mounting the Linux procfs at boot-time?
> 
> I've seen several recommendations to add the following to fstab:
> 
> linproc    /compat/linux/proc      linprocfs     rw  0  0
> 
> But in a standard installation, this mount-point is really under /usr, which 
> isn't mounted until pass 2. If I change the pass number to 2, it fails with 
> an "unexpected inconsistencies" error. I presume this is because mount is 
> trying to fsck it, and failing to find fsck_linprocfs.


This is what I have in my /etc/fstab file:

linprocfs /compat/linux/proc  linprocfs rw   0    0

Is this what you are referring to?

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Gerard Seibert
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