"mount -o remount" non-compliant?

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Fri Nov 11 00:23:55 UTC 2005


Rob Landley wrote:
> Ok.  I need to figure out how to make an automated regression test suite for 
> mount.  Hmmm...  (Maybe just require it be run with root access and you may 
> have to reboot afterwards if it failed badly enough?  Hmmm...)

Run the tests under qemu, or some other virtual machine that's sand-boxed.

I used that technique for generating entire HDD images as a non-root
user (since I need to run lilo on a object with partitions to generate
my images) - I can be root inside qemu!
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