From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: please document alternate "bind" syntax in mount(8)
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 12:58:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140217115829.GD2254@x2.net.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52F50F60.3010103@ubuntu.com>
On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 11:52:48AM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
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> Forwarded from debian bug #409942:
>
> At the moment, neither mount(8) nor fstab(5) tells us how to do bind
> mounts with fstab, or even that it's possible. We have to *guess* that
> doing this in fstab works:
> /some/old/dir /some/new/mountpoint ??? bind ??? ???
> and it's not clear what is or isn't permitted for ???.
I see section "The bind mounts." in the man mount page where is
fstab example.
> Isn't it also time to update the SYNOPSIS in mount(8), now that linux
> versions >=2.4.0 will be standard ? I suggest adding two lines
> like this:
> mount { --bind | -o bind } olddir newdir
> mount { --rbind | -o rbind } olddir newdir
> or, possibly, just one line
> mount { --bind | --rbind | -o bind | -o rbind } olddir newdir
IMHO all is well described in the man page now.
Karel
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Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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2014-02-07 16:52 please document alternate "bind" syntax in mount(8) Phillip Susi
2014-02-17 11:58 ` Karel Zak [this message]
2014-02-17 14:45 ` Phillip Susi
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