Comment 3 for bug 555780

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote :

This isn't true at all.

The reason that there's no documentation that you need to do anything special for mountall to support /var on a separate partition is because you don't! You've pasted the appropriate lines from /lib/init/fstab for /var/run and /var/lock and as you can see, they both have the "showthrough" mount option

These causes mountall to take special action to mount /var, with these filesystems mounted on it and under it