From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: lkml@tlinx.org Message-ID: <53D33297.20502@tlinx.org> Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 21:46:15 -0700 From: "Linda A. Walsh" MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Karel Zak CC: util-linux@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Q: (RFE?) How do you specify the 'no-canonicalize' option in fstab? References: <53D08C77.6010500@tlinx.org> <20140724073222.GI26781@x2.net.home> <53D1BF03.9000201@tlinx.org> <20140725072143.GN26781@x2.net.home> In-Reply-To: <20140725072143.GN26781@x2.net.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed List-ID: Karel Zak wrote: >>>> no-canonicalize in /etc/fstab? >>> Why do you want something like this? > Well, I'm trying to help you, so it would be nice to have more > information about your use-case... --- Was my description still unclear? when I use a "symbolic link" to a file or to a device, when I look at where I am, I want to see what I typed in as part of the path. If I'm in my home dir, I can cd into bin/audio to work on scripts. If I want to test with large files, they are in /Audio, where the scripts dir is under /Audio/scripts. If I am making a short change and not testing, I usually work by cd'ing into the local path ~/bin/audio -- I wouldn't be real happy if it dumped me in /Audio/scripts each time, even though that would be a canonical name. Same with Devnames -- If I use the standard /dev/VG/LV in constructing a name, being passed a mutated form forces an automated script to go belly up -- looking for the VG after /dev/, and looking for LV's under the VG. So in my usecase, I'd like to mount the volumes using /etc/fstab and still be able to use the no-canonicalize option. ?? Reasonable to be able to specify the switch via fstab and provide consistency with the command line option?