On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 10:02:50PM +0000, Isaac Dunham wrote: > Hello, > I've been thinking about adding a feature to Busybox mount, but I'd > like to check on options that are already claimed in util-linux so I > don't cause a major incompatability. > > The feature I'm thinking about is roughly analogous to "mkdir -p" or > "cpio -d": > it creates the mountpoints if needed. man mount: x-mount.mkdir[=mode] Allow to make a target directory (mountpoint). The optional argument mode specifies the filesystem access mode used for mkdir(2) in octal notation. The default mode is 0755. This functionality is supported only for root users. ... so: mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/foo -o x-mount.mkdir 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