It might also be worthwhile to file a documentation bug against the mount and fstab man pages, since it doesn't currently seem to specify (at least on my Ubuntu system; maybe it's been fixed in newer upstream packages) that you can specify the bind option in the fstab file. /src /dest ext3 bind,default It's not clear to me that this should be the preferred form. Why not? /src /dest bind defaults or /src /dest none bind,defaults instead? In any case, how bind mounts are supposed to be specified in fstab is not documented, and it really should be. - Ted - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html