On Aug 15, 2012 2:53 AM, "Oon-Ee Ng" <ngoonee.talk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Tom Gundersen <teg@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:55 AM, David Benfell > > <benfell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Does systemd not use the standard > >> mount program and follow /etc/fstab? > > > > It does. Though it does not use "mount -a", but rather mounts each fs > > separately. > > Ah, that ties in nicely with the weird symptoms I'm seeing right now. > For background, you can read my recent forum post here - > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1146498#p1146498 but its > not necessary to this question > > Basically as part of troubleshooting the above problem, I attempted to > reformat my /home partition (/dev/sda3) on my desktop to btrfs after > quitting X and stopping the related stuff. I also tried this from a > new boot without ever touching X. > > umount /dev/sda3 worked, but mkfs.btrfs didn't, giving me 'still > mounted' errors. When I boot without systemd (initscripts only) then > umounting and mkfs.btrfs works fine. > > Related - when I run systemctl -a | grep sda I get (on my systemd > laptop, but got the same on my desktop), trimmed for readability > dev-sda.device loaded active plugged ST9250827AS > dev-sda1.device loaded active plugged ST9250827AS > sys-devi...da-sda1.device loaded active plugged ST9250827AS > sys-devi...da-sda2.device loaded active plugged ST9250827AS > > Do I need to do something additional to get systemd to 'give up' > partitions totally? What does findmnt say?