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| author | Karel Zak | 2012-07-17 22:02:35 +0200 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2012-07-17 22:02:35 +0200 |
| commit | aedeaa40d1cf5eb687a575b322a09a9a48ced623 (patch) | |
| tree | b7dba13be34a5afaa13486f524e11fcaaabea1f6 /sys-utils/mount.8 | |
| parent | libmount: allow to disable swap between source and target (diff) | |
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mount: (new) add --source and --target
In some cases (for example if only one mount argument is given) may be
mount request ambivalent:
# mount /foo
and fstab:
/dev/sda5 /foo rw 0 0
/foo /bar bind 0 0
the new options allows to be more explicit
# mount --target /foo (mounts /dev/sda5)
# mount --source /foo (binds /foo to /bar)
It's possible to use the options together
# mount --source /dev/sda2 --target /home
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'sys-utils/mount.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | sys-utils/mount.8 | 22 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sys-utils/mount.8 b/sys-utils/mount.8 index 3ddd3f155..c8b6f41c8 100644 --- a/sys-utils/mount.8 +++ b/sys-utils/mount.8 @@ -99,7 +99,19 @@ If only directory or device is given, for example: .RE then mount looks for a mountpoint and if not found then for a device in the -/etc/fstab file. +/etc/fstab file. It's possible to use +.B --target +or +.B --source +options to avoid ambivalent interpretation of the given argument. For example +.RS + +.br +.BI "mount --target /mountpoint" +.br + +.RE + .B The listing and help. .RS @@ -557,6 +569,10 @@ Tolerate sloppy mount options rather than failing. This will ignore mount options not supported by a filesystem type. Not all filesystems support this option. This option exists for support of the Linux autofs\-based automounter. +.IP "\fB\-\-source \fIsrc\fP" +If only one argument for the mount command is given then the argument might be +interpreted as target (mountpoint) or source (device). This option allows to +explicitly define that the argument is mount source. .IP "\fB\-r, \-\-read\-only\fP" Mount the filesystem read-only. A synonym is .BR "\-o ro" . @@ -733,6 +749,10 @@ mounts all filesystems except those of type and .IR ext . .RE +.IP "\fB\-\-target \fIdir\fP" +If only one argument for the mount command is given then the argument might be +interpreted as target (mountpoint) or source (device). This option allows to +explicitly define that the argument is mount target. .IP "\fB\-O, \-\-test-opts \fIopts\fP" Used in conjunction with .BR \-a , |