Once upon a time, Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu> said: > All true, except for: to actually write stuff permanently to hard drive > (that is modify whatever the content of hard drive is) the system needs to > access /dev/sda1 (I call from now /dev/sda1 device which "/" filesystem > lives on), and once /dev/sda1 is deleted there will be no further hard > drive write operations. Incorrect. Once the filesystem is mounted, the kernel access doesn't go through the filesystem /dev node, similar to how once rm is running, it doesn't need the /lib64/libc.so.6 node. -- Chris Adams <linux at cmadams.net>