diff --git a/sh/init-common-post.sh.in b/sh/init-common-post.sh.in
index aa264aa3..5c3af3a1 100644
--- a/sh/init-common-post.sh.in
+++ b/sh/init-common-post.sh.in
@@ -1,19 +1,20 @@
 # Copyright 2007-2008 Roy Marples <roy@marples.name>
 # All rights reserved. Released under the 2-clause BSD license.
 
-retval=0
-
-# mount $svcdir as something we can write to if it's not rw
+# mount $RC_SVCDIR as something we can write to if it's not rw
 # On vservers, / is always rw at this point, so we need to clean out
 # the old service state data
 RC_SVCDIR=${RC_SVCDIR:-/@LIB@/rc/init.d}
-if [ "${RC_SVCDIR}" != "/" ] && mkdir "${RC_SVCDIR}/.test.$$" 2>/dev/null; then
-	rmdir "${RC_SVCDIR}/.test.$$"
-	rm -rf "${RC_SVCDIR}"/*
-else
-	mount_svcdir
-	retval=$?
-fi
+case "$(rc --sys)" in
+	OPENVZ|VSERVER)	rm -rf "${RC_SVCDIR}"/*;;
+	*)		if mountinfo --quiet "${RC_SVCDIR}"; then
+				rm -rf "${RC_SVCDIR}"/*
+			else
+				mount_svcdir
+			fi
+			;;
+esac
+retval=$?
 
 if [ -e "${RC_LIBDIR}"/cache/deptree ]; then
 	cp -p "${RC_LIBDIR}"/cache/* "${RC_SVCDIR}" 2>/dev/null