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Diffstat (limited to 'sys-utils/mount.8')
-rw-r--r-- | sys-utils/mount.8 | 17 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/sys-utils/mount.8 b/sys-utils/mount.8 index 854268a31..69412167d 100644 --- a/sys-utils/mount.8 +++ b/sys-utils/mount.8 @@ -1070,10 +1070,9 @@ Attempt to remount an already-mounted filesystem. This is commonly used to change the mount flags for a filesystem, especially to make a readonly filesystem writable. It does not change device or mount point. -The remount functionality follows the standard way the mount command works with -options, but preferred source for the options is mtab (or /proc/self/mouninfo) -rather than fstab. The mount command only does not read mtab -when both the +The remount functionality follows the standard way the mount command works +with options from fstab. This means that the mount command only doesn't +read fstab (or mtab) when both the .I device and .I dir @@ -1082,16 +1081,16 @@ are specified. .B "mount \-o remount,rw /dev/foo /dir" After this call all old mount options are replaced and arbitrary stuff from -mtab is ignored, except the loop= option which is internally generated and -maintained by the mount command. +fstab (or mtab) is ignored, except the loop= option which is internally +generated and maintained by the mount command. .B "mount \-o remount,rw /dir" -After this call mount reads mtab and merges these options with +After this call mount reads fstab and merges these options with the options from the command line (\c .B \-o\c -). If no mtab (or /proc/self/mountinfo) is available than remount with unspecified -source is allowed. +). If no mountpoint found in fstab than remount with unspecified source is +allowed. .TP .B ro Mount the filesystem read-only. |