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| author | Karel Zak | 2013-02-25 11:17:27 +0100 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2013-02-25 11:17:27 +0100 |
| commit | fd2b0ce5d760e9ec2830f60842ed062ac0a5ba9a (patch) | |
| tree | a25ac958a255413276cd1a54b29aca47c1754191 /sys-utils/umount.8 | |
| parent | Merge branch 'patch-1' of https://github.com/dtrebbien/util-linux (diff) | |
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umount: improve --recursive docs
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'sys-utils/umount.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | sys-utils/umount.8 | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sys-utils/umount.8 b/sys-utils/umount.8 index b8d435876..e49b59e67 100644 --- a/sys-utils/umount.8 +++ b/sys-utils/umount.8 @@ -111,7 +111,10 @@ to specify options for which no action should be taken. .TP \fB\-R\fR, \fB\-\-recursive\fR Recursively unmount each directory specified. Recursion for each directory will -stop if any unmount operation in the chain fails for any reason. +stop if any unmount operation in the chain fails for any reason. The relationship +between mountpoints is determined by /proc/self/mountinfo entries. The filesystem +must be specified by mountpoint path, recursive unmount by device name (or UUID) +is unsupported. .TP \fB\-r\fR, \fB\-\-read\-only\fR In case unmounting fails, try to remount read-only. |