[Clfs-support] Mounting Kernel Filesystems

[William Harrington]

On Feb 16, 2014, at 6:40 PM, Alexey Orishko wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> I'm doing chroot CLFS 2.1.0 x86 variant and I need a clarification in
> the chapter 8.10.1 for two mount commands:
> mount -vt devpts -o gid=5,mode=620 none /dev/pts
> mount -vt tmpfs none /dev/shm

Those are to be done in chroot.
>
> While doing them in chroot I got an error:
> chroot. root:/$ id
> uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
> chroot. root:/$ mount -vt tmpfs none /dev/shm
> mount: only root can use "--types" option (effective UID is 2xxx)
>

become root, then chroot.  Use su.

If the problem persists, you are going to have to retrace your command  
history with the book and find out where a mistake was made.
I encountered this problem one time when buliding CLFS and testing  
git, and I couldn't figure it out, restarted from scratch and all was  
fine.

Maybe you'll find out why.

Sincerely,

William Harrington