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authorKarel Zak2019-01-21 11:56:27 +0100
committerKarel Zak2019-01-21 11:56:27 +0100
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mount: (man) add note about --all to remount desc
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/sys-utils/mount.8 b/sys-utils/mount.8
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@@ -1218,6 +1218,18 @@ After this call, mount reads fstab and merges these options with
the options from the command line (\fB\-o\fR).
If no mountpoint is found in fstab, then a remount with unspecified source is
allowed.
+.sp
+mount(8) allows to use \fB\-\-all\fR to remount all already mounted filesystems
+which match a specified filter (\fB\-O\fR and \fB\-t\fR). For example:
+.sp
+.in +4
+.B "mount \-\-all \-o remount,ro -t vfat"
+.in
+.sp
+remounts all already mounted vfat filesystems in read-only mode. The each of the
+filesystems is remounted by "mount \-o remount,ro /dir" semantic. It means the
+mount command reads fstab or mtab and merges these options with the options
+from the command line.
.TP
.B ro
Mount the filesystem read-only.