Re: Automounting of the root partition in the initramfs

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On 10/15/2013 02:47 PM, Juerg Haefliger wrote:
> All,
> 
> The (admittedly hacky) dracut-modules-growroot package installs a
> dracut script that runs in the pre-pivot stage. It unmounts the root
> partition, extends it to the maximum possible size and then tries to
> remount it. What I noticed in F20 is that as soon as the
> repartitioning finishes (its an sfdisk command), something
> automatically remounts the root partition and the growroot script
> fails when it tries to mount the already mounted partition.
> 
> Can somebody shed some light on what is happening and why the root
> partition is automatically remounted and if I can rely on that and not
> have the growroot script try to remount it?
> 
> Thanks
> ...Juerg
> 

Oh, that is systemd, because it generates a unit file from the kernel command
line called sysroot.mount, which is required by the following systemd targets.
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