* Error in man page for fstab
@ 2011-07-12 16:21 Brad Goodman
2011-07-13 8:42 ` Karel Zak
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From: Brad Goodman @ 2011-07-12 16:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: util-linux
The fstab man page contains the following text:
>> The third field, (fs_vfstype) ... An entry "none" is useful for bind or move mounts
"none" is interpreted as an actual vfstype, which does not have the
intended consequences.
I believe the word "none" should be replaced with "auto", which
automatically detects the vfstype.
This was seen under Centos 6.0, which gave the following info from the man page:
Linux 2.2 15 June 1999 FSTAB(5)
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* Re: Error in man page for fstab
2011-07-12 16:21 Error in man page for fstab Brad Goodman
@ 2011-07-13 8:42 ` Karel Zak
2011-07-13 15:54 ` Brad Goodman
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Karel Zak @ 2011-07-13 8:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Brad Goodman; +Cc: util-linux
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 12:21:58PM -0400, Brad Goodman wrote:
> The fstab man page contains the following text:
>
> >> The third field, (fs_vfstype) ... An entry "none" is useful for bind or move mounts
>
> "none" is interpreted as an actual vfstype, which does not have the
> intended consequences.
The bind mounts are completely independent on FS type. The type does
not make sense here. The recent version of the mount(8) always
overwrites the FS type to "none" for all MS_BIND, MS_MOVE and
MS_PROPAGATION operations.
Karel
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2011-07-13 8:42 ` Karel Zak
@ 2011-07-13 15:54 ` Brad Goodman
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From: Brad Goodman @ 2011-07-13 15:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Karel Zak; +Cc: util-linux
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 4:42 AM, Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 12:21:58PM -0400, Brad Goodman wrote:
>> The fstab man page contains the following text:
>>
>> >> The third field, (fs_vfstype) ... An entry "none" is useful for bind or move mounts
>>
>> "none" is interpreted as an actual vfstype, which does not have the
>> intended consequences.
>
> The bind mounts are completely independent on FS type. The type does
> not make sense here. The recent version of the mount(8) always
> overwrites the FS type to "none" for all MS_BIND, MS_MOVE and
> MS_PROPAGATION operations.
>
If I specify "none" as the third parameter in fstab, and try to mount
a DVD, I get an error on mount:
Unrecognized fs type "none"
If I change this to "auto", it correctly mounts as iso9660.
-BKG
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