On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 17:01 +0900, KIMURA Masaru wrote: > Hi, > > A user continues to mumble about behavior of "# mount /dev" in this list [1]. > He said, he did accidentally type > > # mount /dev This will fail since /dev is immediately mounted and populated at boot time (by udev among others). > > and "ls /dev" shows only initctl under /dev. > > "man mount" said, > > If only directory or device is given, for example: > > mount /dir > > then mount looks for a mountpoint and if not found then for a > device in the /etc/fstab file. > > so I guess this is an undocumented behavior. > > Naohiro Aota explains that this is expected tmpfs' behavior in kernel. [2] A whole lot of processes expect /dev/shm to be present; but mount(8)'s relationship with tmpfs is no different than with any other linux filesystem. > And I think "just don't do such thing." > But this user still doesn't accept this undocumented mount behavior. > > any thought? All in all I'm not sure I follow this problem and Google translate isn't helping much either. What is very strange is that /dev is not mounted at startup, and the user should address *that* issue instead of manually mounting /dev. > > [1] http://ml.gentoo.gr.jp/users/201111.month/2194.html > [2] http://ml.gentoo.gr.jp/users/201111.month/2195.html > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
