"mount -o remount" non-compliant?
Rob Landley
rob at landley.net
Sat Nov 12 19:44:40 UTC 2005
On Saturday 12 November 2005 13:19, Paul Fox wrote:
> > > > Boy this is a pain to get right. But you're correct that we need
> > > > to parse /etc/mtab. Ok...
> > >
> > > is remount the only flag this applies to?
> >
> > No, in theory it also applies to stuff like noatime, noexec...
>
> but you can't just set noatime or noexec on an existing mount unless
> you also use remount, right? i guess i was wondering if there were
> other operations with the same use-an-existing-mount notion as remount.
Sorry, I misread that as "ro".
Yes, remount is the only flag this applies to. It asks for different behavior
from normal.
Rob
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