Re: mount --bind not reporting source directory

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On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 08:58:10PM +0200, Jonas Karlsson wrote:
> When bind mounting a directory the source directory is not recorded
> somewhere, instead the device at where the source directory resides is
> recorded as origin.because of that the source directory name can't be
> used as "key" to revert the bind mount later. See below
> 
> jonas@Atlas /tmp]sudo mount --bind /tmp/foo /tmp/bar
> jonas@Atlas /tmp]mount
> [...]
> /dev/root on /tmp/bar type reiserfs (rw,relatime)

 Your /etc/mtab is symlink to /proc/mounts, right? The /proc/mounts is
 useless for bind mounts.

    Karel


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