On Mon, Jan 02, 2017 at 09:44:46PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote: John Darrington skribis: > 1. Boot from an installation-os image. > 2. cp /etc/issue /tmp > 3. ls -l /tmp [observe that /tmp/issue exists] > 4. mount -t ext4 /dev/sda1 /mnt > 5. herd start cow-store /mnt > 6. ls -l /tmp [observe that /tmp/issue has dissappeared] Indeed, ???cow-store??? bind-mounts /mnt/tmp (or whatever the target mount point is) to /tmp to make sure we have enough disk space if we need to build things. This was done in commit 0adabad72d58492f08975af0b6b837ebde32a51b in response to a bug report. Is it a problem for the installer? It's not an insurmountable problem. But it is a bit annoying. J' -- Avoid eavesdropping. Send strong encrypted email. PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key.