"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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