How to mount a FAT Drive to the root dir

Wed Jan 18 12:09:37 UTC 2006

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Hi,

AFAIK this is not possible, sorry. The root FS is needed to create the
device nodes, and FAT only works when a (block) device is properly
available, so (apart from other source structure problems) you would run
into a hen-and-egg problem.

wkr,
Thomas.

Wilfried Busalski schrieb:
> Hi community
> 
> How do I mount an other filesystem to the Rootdir  '/' in rtems ?
> If I mount it to another dir in IMFS like '/mnt' it works.
> 
> Is it possible to use a FAT-Filesystem as a Basefilesystem?
> 
> Regards
> W.Busalski

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