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loki0347

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Registered: 2009-06-29

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Cannot mount Unionfs

I finally got my first Arch Linux setup running on my eee701. The manual was great and I got through it with no trouble. The only thing is I want to squash my /usr directory to save space (4GB SSD is small). google linux liposuction, all I want to do is mount usr.sqfs as /usr and mount a folder over it as a unionfs. Now I already got squashfs-tools and the  aufs2-util but when I try to mount -t unionfs I get the error: mount: unknown filesystem type 'unionfs'... Any help?

pyther

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Re: Cannot mount Unionfs

Usually this means that you do not have the needed filesystem module loaded. Use lsmod to check and see if you have the module loaded.

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loki0347

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Re: Cannot mount Unionfs

With aufs2-util installed, trying to load unionfs as a module fails.

loki0347

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Re: Cannot mount Unionfs

nvm I see that I need to use mount -t aufs... RTFM applies here thanks though, you got me pointed in the right direction...

Last edited by loki0347 (2009-06-29 06:09:51)