On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 03:30:45PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote:
>
> I would use mount --no-canonical to rewrite mtab to match fstab so
>
> my utils could find volumes in /etc/fstab -- but recently in
> util-linux-2.21.2
> this has no longer worked.
>
> I made sure to have /etc/mtab NOT be a symlink to /proc/self/mounts so
> mount could write to it. It DOES write to it, but it doesn't display it.
>
> Example:
> After doing a remount as recommended by the manpage...
>
> mount -f --no-canonical -a -o remount
Well, --no-canonicalize assume that all paths are already
canonicalized and the remount updates mount options only.
What exactly do you want to do? Maybe we can try to find a better
solution than play nasty games with mtab ;-)
Karel
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