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I'm trying to mount a unionfs file system in fstab (as one of the steps in this guide), with the following line:

unionfs /usr unionfs nodev,noatime,dirs=/.filesystems/usr/overlay=ro:/usr=rw 0 0

I've installed the package unionfs-fuse and added unionfs to /etc/modules, but when trying to mount -a I still get an error saying

mount: unknown file system type: unionfs

What am I doing wrong here?

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I wanted to tag this unionfs, but I don't have enough rep to create new tags. Anyone with 300+, feel free =) –  Tomas Lycken Oct 24 '11 at 1:03
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I've solved (or rather worked around) this, by not using unionfs and instead using aufs - another union file system. The corresponding row in my fstab now looks like this:

usr    /usr    aufs    udba=reval,br:/.filesystems/usr/rw:/.filesystems/usr/ro    0   0

The squashfs is mounted at /.filesystems/usr/ro in the previous line, making this working as a substitute for the troubling steps in the guide I referred to in the OP.

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