Re: mount: "nofail" and already mounted devices?

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On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 04:51:54PM +0100, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
> Karel Zak wrote:
> The new behavior could simplify common situation and also prevent a
> race:
> if the device is not yet mounted
>    mount it
> do the work

It would be enough to add extra return code for EBUSY (which is
probably a good idea for all scenarios).

> > > - Make possible to use "-a" with further arguments.
> > 
> >   mount -a /foo /bar [...]
> > 
> > Right? 
> 
> Well, it sounds interesting as well, but I was thinking about
> (conflicting):
> mount -a /dev/device /mountpoint

 It's new feature, so we can be pretty strict about it

   mount -a [<mountpoint> ..]

 and do not support "mount -a <source> <target>". If you need
 something more advanced then you have to compose a script.

    Karel

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