Mystery solved ,,, It is a bash function (although the bash function seems fairly useless) ... Thank you .... Thank you ... stevef@smfhome2:~> type -a remount remount is a function remount () { /bin/mount -o remount,${1+"$@"} } On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 10:01 PM, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 09:51:51PM -0500, Steve French wrote: >> that is the point ... strace doesn't work on that command and I don't >> even know the syntax of the utility "remount" It seems to be >> something builtin to bash - very odd .... > > Assuming you're using bash, try type -a remount -- Thanks, Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html