Comment 9 for bug 523484

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Brian J. Murrell (brian-interlinx) wrote : Re: [Bug 523484] Re: ureadahead requires /var on root filesystem

On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 13:26 +0000, Trey "WebStandardCSS" Brister wrote:
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> Well I am that smart guy and I got the readahead error.

Not smart enough... :-)

> Boot to Ubuntu live CD

Not needed. If you want access to what's in the /var that's on the root
filesystem (i.e. what's under the /var that you mounted on /var) you can
simply bind mount the root filesystem somewhere else such as:

# mkdir /tmp/rootbind
# mount -o bind / /tmp/rootbind
# cd /tmp/rootbind/var

I wonder if this sort of thing could in fact be the solution to this
problem in an automated manner.