Your message dated Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:43:18 +0800
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and subject line Re: mount(8) man page bugs reported to Debian
has caused the Debian Bug report #478600,
regarding -o loop or -o explicit_loop_device preferred?
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Package: mount
Version: 2.13.1-5
Severity: minor
The man page is unclear:
First give an example with just -o loop, before this:
mount /tmp/fdimage /mnt -t msdos -o loop=/dev/loop3,blocksize=1024
unless -o loop is not preferred.
Maybe this:
If no explicit loop device is mentioned (but just an option `-o loop'
is given), then mount will try to find some unused loop device and use
that. If you are not so unwise as to make /etc/mtab a symbolic link to
/proc/mounts...
Means:
Using an explicit loop device is preferred to just -o loop... Never
make a /etc/mtab a symbolic link to /proc/mounts...
Please reword as to whatever it is you mean. "Not so unwise" is
abstruse to anybody who is not a native speaker and some native
speakers too.
P.S.,
# mount
/vietnam.raw on /mnt/extra type iso9660 (rw,loop=/dev/loop0)
but on trying to remove files, get: "rm: ... Read-only file system"
On the man page we see
(except that it is read-only, of course).
So say ro when reporting iso9660, anything but "rw". ls(1) shows the
files r-xr-xr-x so mount should be as smart too.
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>>>>> "KZ" == Karel Zak <[email protected]> writes:
KZ> On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 10:05:29AM +0800, [email protected] wrote:
>> Oh my god I've been reporting mount(8) man page bugs to the wrong place,
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=mount;[email protected]
>> all along. Perhaps you fellows could take a look and fix/close some. Thanks.
KZ> #507700 "sw" not documented in swapon(8)
KZ> - Fixed. "sw" is unsupported by swapon
KZ> #320500 umount: usage: umount -h -V
KZ> - Fixed
KZ> #329856 and #501594 mount.8.gz: remove obsolete items
KZ> - Fixed
KZ> #334796 losetup.8.gz: insmod loop.o
KZ> - you can use the "--show" option to see assigned device
KZ> (e.g. losetup --show -f)
KZ> - man page fixed
KZ> #478600 -o loop or -o explicit_loop_device preferred?
KZ> - I did some changes to the man page -- note that I don't think
KZ> that any solution (loop / loop=) should be preferred.
KZ> #391318 umount / && echo Really?
KZ> - umount /; echo $? -- works for me
OK, thanks. I'll hereby close them. I see there's a few more remaining.
Hope somebody gets a chance to look at/close them one day.
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