On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 09:38:20AM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I've had another question come up about bind mounts and the lack of > mtab and I'm not sure how to answer it because it does seem a more > important use case that has been lost than those previously discussed. > > If /dev/sda1 is mounted in /, and you bind mount /home/foo to /mnt, > then there is no way to tell from the output of mount that it is in > fact, the /home/foo directory of /dev/sda1 that is in /mnt. It looks > like you just bind mounted the whole drive there, and the subdirectory > path is lost. See findmnt output, the /proc/self/mountinfo contains info about the mounted filesystem directory (usually '/', but /home/foo in your example). Note that I'd like to learn people to use findmnt(8) rather mount output. The mount(8) output is there mostly for backward compatibility. Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- 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