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| author | Sami Kerola | 2016-04-16 20:05:58 +0200 |
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| committer | Sami Kerola | 2016-04-17 00:09:27 +0200 |
| commit | 592fe0175f25a5d50d14de4eecdb7f22be4bdb39 (patch) | |
| tree | 9c8d451a938ec0f1caa9a9e35d642181eff52eeb /sys-utils/mount.c | |
| parent | dmesg: --notime should not suppress --show-delta (diff) | |
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mount: try to tell what mount was doing when it failed
Earlier output did not give enough information to system admin to fix an
issue in /etc/fstab effectively.
$ sudo mount -a
mount: mount(2) failed: No such file or directory
Addresses: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1557145
Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
Diffstat (limited to 'sys-utils/mount.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | sys-utils/mount.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/sys-utils/mount.c b/sys-utils/mount.c index 9c4729ef8..64ec0a779 100644 --- a/sys-utils/mount.c +++ b/sys-utils/mount.c @@ -520,7 +520,12 @@ try_readonly: warnx(_("special device %s does not exist"), src); } else { errno = syserr; - warn(_("mount(2) failed")); /* print errno */ + if (tgt) + warn("%s: %s", _("mount(2) failed"), tgt); + else if (src) + warn("%s: %s", _("mount(2) failed"), src); + else + warn(_("mount(2) failed")); } break; @@ -535,7 +540,7 @@ try_readonly: "(a path prefix is not a directory)"), src); } else { errno = syserr; - warn(_("mount(2) failed")); /* print errno */ + warn("%s: %s", _("mount(2) failed"), tgt); } break; |