On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 11:52:48AM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
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> Forwarded from debian bug #409942:
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> At the moment, neither mount(8) nor fstab(5) tells us how to do bind
> mounts with fstab, or even that it's possible. We have to *guess* that
> doing this in fstab works:
> /some/old/dir /some/new/mountpoint ??? bind ??? ???
> and it's not clear what is or isn't permitted for ???.
I see section "The bind mounts." in the man mount page where is
fstab example.
> Isn't it also time to update the SYNOPSIS in mount(8), now that linux
> versions >=2.4.0 will be standard ? I suggest adding two lines
> like this:
> mount { --bind | -o bind } olddir newdir
> mount { --rbind | -o rbind } olddir newdir
> or, possibly, just one line
> mount { --bind | --rbind | -o bind | -o rbind } olddir newdir
IMHO all is well described in the man page now.
Karel
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