where is remount?

where is remount?

[Steve French]

Was noticing a strange ioctl coming into the cifs code when I issue
"remount" on a cifs mount and was trying to trace it but although
remount appears to be in the path, neither "strace" nor "which" can
find a command named remount (bash command completion can, and it must
exist because the command calls into mount).

Is this some strange built in bash alias?  I don't see it when
grepping my root user's home dir.

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Thanks,

Steve

Re: where is remount?

[Tetsuo Handa]

Steve French wrote:
> Was noticing a strange ioctl coming into the cifs code when I issue
> "remount" on a cifs mount and was trying to trace it but although
> remount appears to be in the path, neither "strace" nor "which" can
> find a command named remount (bash command completion can, and it must
> exist because the command calls into mount).
> 
> Is this some strange built in bash alias?  I don't see it when
> grepping my root user's home dir.

You mean "/bin/mount -o remount" ?

Re: where is remount?

[Steve French]

It may be calling that ... but I was typing:  "remount" in bash and I
don't see a bash alias for it or a command in the path named that.

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 8:18 PM, Tetsuo Handa
<penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> wrote:
>
> Steve French wrote:
>> Was noticing a strange ioctl coming into the cifs code when I issue
>> "remount" on a cifs mount and was trying to trace it but although
>> remount appears to be in the path, neither "strace" nor "which" can
>> find a command named remount (bash command completion can, and it must
>> exist because the command calls into mount).
>>
>> Is this some strange built in bash alias?  I don't see it when
>> grepping my root user's home dir.
>
> You mean "/bin/mount -o remount" ?
>



-- 
Thanks,

Steve

Re: where is remount?

[Tetsuo Handa]

Steve French wrote:
> It may be calling that ... but I was typing:  "remount" in bash and I
> don't see a bash alias for it or a command in the path named that.
Didn't you see MS_REMOUNT in the output of "strace"?

# mount -t tmpfs none /dev/shm/
# strace mount -o remount,ro /dev/shm/ 2>&1 | grep mount
execve("/bin/mount", ["mount", "-o", "remount,ro", "/dev/shm/"], [/* 17 vars */]) = 0
open("/proc/mounts", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
stat64("/sbin/mount.tmpfs", 0xbffeb570) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
mount("none", "/dev/shm", 0x8c13d68, MS_MGC_VAL|MS_RDONLY|MS_REMOUNT, ""...) = 0

Re: where is remount?

[Steve French]

that is the point ... strace doesn't work on that command and I don't
even know the syntax of the utility "remount"  It seems to be
something builtin to bash - very odd ....

smfhome2:~ # mount /dev/sdb8 /mnt2
smfhome2:~ # remount -o ro /dev/sdb8
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
smfhome2:~ # remount -o ro /dev/sdb8 -t ext3
mount: /dev/sdb8 not mounted already, or bad option
smfhome2:~ # remount -t ext3 -o ro /dev/sdb8
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
smfhome2:~ # remount -o ro -t ext3 /dev/sdb8
mount: /dev/sdb8 not mounted already, or bad option
smfhome2:~ # strace -f remount -o ro -t ext3 /dev/sdb8
strace: remount: command not found
smfhome2:~ # which strace
/usr/bin/strace
smfhome2:~ # which remount
which: no remount in
(/home/stevef/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/mit/bin:/usr/lib/mit/sbin:/usr/lib/qt3/bin)


On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Tetsuo Handa
<penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> wrote:
> Steve French wrote:
>> It may be calling that ... but I was typing:  "remount" in bash and I
>> don't see a bash alias for it or a command in the path named that.
> Didn't you see MS_REMOUNT in the output of "strace"?
>
> # mount -t tmpfs none /dev/shm/
> # strace mount -o remount,ro /dev/shm/ 2>&1 | grep mount
> execve("/bin/mount", ["mount", "-o", "remount,ro", "/dev/shm/"], [/* 17 vars */]) = 0
> open("/proc/mounts", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
> stat64("/sbin/mount.tmpfs", 0xbffeb570) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> mount("none", "/dev/shm", 0x8c13d68, MS_MGC_VAL|MS_RDONLY|MS_REMOUNT, ""...) = 0
>



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Thanks,

Steve

Re: where is remount?

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 09:51:51PM -0500, Steve French wrote:
> that is the point ... strace doesn't work on that command and I don't
> even know the syntax of the utility "remount"  It seems to be
> something builtin to bash - very odd ....

Assuming you're using bash, try type -a remount

(and then type 'help type' to see what it's telling you)

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Re: where is remount?

[Steve French]

By trying various combinations of options, I finally was able to find
one that stopped "remount" by pausing in the cifs mount helper
(prompting for a password), i can see a little more information:

Typing the command:
smfhome2:/home/stevef # remount /mnt /mnt1

I can see that "remount" invokes mount but with odd syntax
stevef@smfhome2:~> ps -Aelf | grep "mount"
0 S root     25024 25012  0  80   0 -  1779 wait   22:01 pts/4
00:00:00 /bin/mount -o remount,/mnt /mnt1



On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 9:51 PM, Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com> wrote:
> that is the point ... strace doesn't work on that command and I don't
> even know the syntax of the utility "remount"  It seems to be
> something builtin to bash - very odd ....
>
> smfhome2:~ # mount /dev/sdb8 /mnt2
> smfhome2:~ # remount -o ro /dev/sdb8
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type
> smfhome2:~ # remount -o ro /dev/sdb8 -t ext3
> mount: /dev/sdb8 not mounted already, or bad option
> smfhome2:~ # remount -t ext3 -o ro /dev/sdb8
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type
> smfhome2:~ # remount -o ro -t ext3 /dev/sdb8
> mount: /dev/sdb8 not mounted already, or bad option
> smfhome2:~ # strace -f remount -o ro -t ext3 /dev/sdb8
> strace: remount: command not found
> smfhome2:~ # which strace
> /usr/bin/strace
> smfhome2:~ # which remount
> which: no remount in
> (/home/stevef/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/mit/bin:/usr/lib/mit/sbin:/usr/lib/qt3/bin)
>
>
> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Tetsuo Handa
> <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> wrote:
>> Steve French wrote:
>>> It may be calling that ... but I was typing:  "remount" in bash and I
>>> don't see a bash alias for it or a command in the path named that.
>> Didn't you see MS_REMOUNT in the output of "strace"?
>>
>> # mount -t tmpfs none /dev/shm/
>> # strace mount -o remount,ro /dev/shm/ 2>&1 | grep mount
>> execve("/bin/mount", ["mount", "-o", "remount,ro", "/dev/shm/"], [/* 17 vars */]) = 0
>> open("/proc/mounts", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
>> stat64("/sbin/mount.tmpfs", 0xbffeb570) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>> mount("none", "/dev/shm", 0x8c13d68, MS_MGC_VAL|MS_RDONLY|MS_REMOUNT, ""...) = 0
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Thanks,
>
> Steve
>



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Thanks,

Steve

Re: where is remount?

[Steve French]

Mystery solved ,,,

It is a bash function (although the bash function seems fairly
useless) ... Thank you .... Thank you ...

stevef@smfhome2:~> type -a remount
remount is a function
remount ()
{
    /bin/mount -o remount,${1+"$@"}
}


On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 10:01 PM, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> wrote:
> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 09:51:51PM -0500, Steve French wrote:
>> that is the point ... strace doesn't work on that command and I don't
>> even know the syntax of the utility "remount"  It seems to be
>> something builtin to bash - very odd ....
>
> Assuming you're using bash, try type -a remount


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Thanks,

Steve