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authorKarel Zak2012-04-18 10:09:49 +0200
committerKarel Zak2012-04-18 10:09:49 +0200
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mount: (new) be more pedantic about --make-*
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/sys-utils/mount.8 b/sys-utils/mount.8
index d18881b2c..5ec121092 100644
--- a/sys-utils/mount.8
+++ b/sys-utils/mount.8
@@ -398,6 +398,15 @@ command (then mount(8) does not read /etc/mtab), then you have to use bind flag
.B mount -o remount,ro,bind
.I olddir newdir
.RE
+
+Note that
+.I remount,ro,bind
+will create a read-only mountpoint (VFS entry), but the original filesystem suberblock
+will be still writable, it means that the
+.I olddir
+will be writable, but the
+.I newdir
+will be read-only.
.RE
.B The move operation.
@@ -434,6 +443,11 @@ unbindable mount is a private mount which cannot be cloned through a bind
operation. Detailed semantics is documented in Documentation/filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt
file in the kernel source tree.
+Note that Linux kernel does not allow to change more propagation flags by one
+.B mount (2)
+syscall and the flags cannot be mixed with another mount options. It means that
+more --make-* options cannot be used together or with another mount options.
+
.RS
.nf
.BI "mount --make-shared " mountpoint