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From: Linda Walsh <lkml@tlinx.org>
To: Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Specifying a generic and per-fs mount line in /etc/fstab as well as no-canonicalize.
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 12:14:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53E3D02F.5040300@tlinx.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53E2B3FB.8050409@bernhard-voelker.de>

Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 08/07/2014 12:55 AM, Linda A. Walsh wrote:
>   
>> 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:
>>     
> OT, but: no, "pwd -P" (pwd, the shell built-in) does.
>   
Yeah... by asking the builtin for the physical path, I could see
mount -p showing you the physical path.  But wouldn't
that be "/dev/dm-x"?  Where is it coming up with /dev/mapper/<mangledname>?

It's not the link the user gave, and it's not the real device, seems like
those are "dm" internal names?

maybe mount -d? for those?

or put all of them under 1 mountop  -D{d|p|s}?




  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-07 19:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-06 22:55 Specifying a generic and per-fs mount line in /etc/fstab as well as no-canonicalize Linda A. Walsh
2014-08-06 23:02 ` Bernhard Voelker
2014-08-07 19:14   ` Linda Walsh [this message]
2014-08-08  8:08     ` Karel Zak
2014-08-08  8:44 ` Karel Zak
2014-08-08 15:29   ` Linda Walsh

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