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| author | Peter Volkov | 2009-08-18 14:21:33 +0200 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2009-08-18 14:21:33 +0200 |
| commit | 3f99aaf1c95fa39e54d27324da777ebd3721c7de (patch) | |
| tree | f053a8810d31f029c3ac08d73786b8c019a252bf /mount/mount.8 | |
| parent | mount: clean up mount.8 (diff) | |
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mount: mention mtab for single mount point mount in mount.8
Karel Zak wrote: "This is very old (10+years) feature. The mount(8) is
trying to found mountpoint/device in fstab and then in mtab.
I guess the original purpose for this feature is user-friendly 'mount
/node -o remount'. Unfortunately, the code does not check for
MS_REMOUNT flag and consults mtab in all cases. (The code is
consulting fstab/mtab before mount options parsing.)"
This commit documents this feature.
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'mount/mount.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | mount/mount.8 | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mount/mount.8 b/mount/mount.8 index a8f64c7b4..4e1b572da 100644 --- a/mount/mount.8 +++ b/mount/mount.8 @@ -274,7 +274,9 @@ option will make mount fork, so that the filesystems are mounted simultaneously. .LP When mounting a filesystem mentioned in -.IR fstab , +.IR fstab +or +.IR mtab , it suffices to give only the device, or only the mount point. |