В Птн, 24/07/2009 в 15:26 +0200, Karel Zak пишет:
> This is very old (10+years) feature (but undocumented). The mount(8)
> is trying to found mountpoint/device in fstab and then in mtab.
>
> I guess the original purpose for this feature is user-friendly "mount
> /node -o remount". Unfortunately, the code does not check for
> MS_REMOUNT flag and consults mtab in all cases. (The code is
> consulting fstab/mtab before mount options parsing.)
> It's bug in the mount.8 man page -- this behaviour should be
> documented. Patches are welcomed :-)
Looks like this one is easy. Patch in attachment.
--
Peter.
commit ce0a3ab9f95212741f88cb2f1b369596d2ee3d32
Author: Peter Volkov <pva@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Jul 24 18:36:55 2009 +0400
Mention mtab for single mount point mount
Karel Zak wrote: "This is very old (10+years) feature. The mount(8) is
trying to found mountpoint/device in fstab and then in mtab.
I guess the original purpose for this feature is user-friendly 'mount
/node -o remount'. Unfortunately, the code does not check for
MS_REMOUNT flag and consults mtab in all cases. (The code is consulting
fstab/mtab before mount options parsing.)"
This commit documents this feature.
diff --git a/mount/mount.8 b/mount/mount.8
index 8e17549..da365f6 100644
--- a/mount/mount.8
+++ b/mount/mount.8
@@ -246,7 +246,9 @@ option will make mount fork, so that the
filesystems are mounted simultaneously.
.LP
When mounting a file system mentioned in
-.IR fstab ,
+.IR fstab
+or
+.IR mtab ,
it suffices to give only the device, or only the mount point.
