On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Andrew Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxx> wrote: > # touch foo > # touch bar > # mount -n --bind foo bar > # mount -n -o remount,ro bar > mount: can't find bar in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab > > That seems like an oversight -- why is -o remount looking at > /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab at all? Especially when I set -n. > > Oddly, this doesn't work either: > # mount -n -o remount,ro -t bind foo bar > mount: bar is busy > > Am I missing something? This works: # mount -n --bind -o remount,ro none bar Perhaps that should go in the man page. This isn't intuitive at all. --Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html