From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from ishtar.tlinx.org ([173.164.175.65]:38824 "EHLO Ishtar.hs.tlinx.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754533AbaHFWz7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2014 18:55:59 -0400 Received: from [192.168.4.12] (athenae [192.168.4.12]) by Ishtar.hs.tlinx.org (8.14.7/8.14.4/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id s76MtuaD034005 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2014 15:55:59 -0700 Message-ID: <53E2B27C.9020305@tlinx.org> Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 15:55:56 -0700 From: "Linda A. Walsh" MIME-Version: 1.0 To: util-linux@vger.kernel.org Subject: Specifying a generic and per-fs mount line in /etc/fstab as well as no-canonicalize. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Sender: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Karel Zak wrote: > > Well, I'm trying to help you, so it would be nice to have more > information about your use-case... I think I explained that it was the default to follow user-specified symbolic link names in following and echoing a path -- notable in shells like bash. if "/usr/src" is a symlink pointing to /home/src, and under /home/src, packages points to ../packages, then when I switch to /usr/src/packages, I see my path listed as /usr/src/packages: > cd /usr/src/packages /usr/src/packages> pwd /usr/src/packages Only by asking an external util can I find the real name: > /bin/pwd /home/packages It's a display choice for *user-convenience* that was made over years of feedback. Why not allow the same paradigm in /etc/fstab and allow nocanonicalize as an option with mounts in /etc/fstab?