Re: Loopback mount in fstab fails

[Tony Nelson]

On 19-08-16 09:25:36, [e-mail] wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 14:12:06 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Fri, 2019-08-16 at 09:58 -0300, George N. White III wrote:
> > > Can you boot from live media? If so, you could just rename
>
> `/newvar` to
> > > `/var` and edit fstab.
> > I may have to do that as /var is too central to booting even in
>
> single-
> > user mode.
>
> I would try to add to the kernel params: init=/bin/bash
> then: "mount -o remount,rw /", rename the new directory to /var,
> "sync" and "reboot -f"
>
> It used to work.

Or add to the kernel params "rd.break=pre-pivot".  You'll still need the
remount.  See `man dracut.cmdline`, from `man kernel-command-line`.
Booting continues if you exit the shell.