On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 03:59:15PM +0200, Ruediger Meier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On RHEL/CentOs-6 with /etc/mtab file some of our mount tests write something to
> /etc/mtab. AFAIR it should be ignored nowadays by default, right?
>
> After our test-suite was running I see these lines left in /etc/mtab:
>
> tmpd /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/util-linux-2.29-rc2/tests/output/mount/fstab-broken-mnt tmpfs rw 0 0
> tmpd /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/util-linux-2.29-rc2/tests/output/mount/fstab-broken-mnt tmpfs rw 0 0
> none /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/util-linux-2.29-rc2/tests/output/mount/fstab-none-mnt tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime 0 0
Because our mount (from the test) calls /sbin/mount.tmpfs where
is executed standard mount(8) from system.
I'll improve the test to call umount --fake to clean up mtab.
Karel
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