From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: Linda Walsh <lkml@tlinx.org>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mount --no-canonical seems broken.
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:36:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130423123648.GB24501@x2.net.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5175BA15.9060803@tlinx.org>
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 03:30:45PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote:
>
> I would use mount --no-canonical to rewrite mtab to match fstab so
>
> my utils could find volumes in /etc/fstab -- but recently in
> util-linux-2.21.2
> this has no longer worked.
>
> I made sure to have /etc/mtab NOT be a symlink to /proc/self/mounts so
> mount could write to it. It DOES write to it, but it doesn't display it.
>
> Example:
> After doing a remount as recommended by the manpage...
>
> mount -f --no-canonical -a -o remount
Well, --no-canonicalize assume that all paths are already
canonicalized and the remount updates mount options only.
What exactly do you want to do? Maybe we can try to find a better
solution than play nasty games with mtab ;-)
Karel
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Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
http://karelzak.blogspot.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-23 12:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-22 22:30 mount --no-canonical seems broken Linda Walsh
2013-04-23 12:36 ` Karel Zak [this message]
2013-04-24 0:39 ` Linda Walsh
2013-04-25 6:15 ` Linda Walsh
2013-05-20 7:40 ` Karel Zak
2013-05-20 23:30 ` Linda Walsh
2013-05-21 9:47 ` Karel Zak
2013-05-21 19:31 ` Linda Walsh
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