retitle 435645 pumount does not play nicely with symlinks in /etc/fstab
thanks
Hello,
Klaus Ethgen wrote:
> Well, my cdrom is no scsi. So:
> ~> pumount -d /cdrom
> checking whether /cdrom is a mounted directory
> resolved mount point /cdrom to device /dev/hdc
> resolved /dev/hdc to device /dev/hdc
> Checking for device '/dev/hdc' in '/etc/fstab'
> Checking for device '/dev/hdc' in '/etc/mtab'
> Error: mount point /cdrom is not below /media/
>
> ~> pumount -d /dev/hdc
> checking whether /dev/hdc is a mounted directory
> resolved /dev/hdc to device /dev/hdc
> Checking for device '/dev/hdc' in '/etc/fstab'
> Checking for device '/dev/hdc' in '/etc/mtab'
> Error: mount point /cdrom is not below /media/
Thanks. I think I might understand the problem here. Just to make
sure, could you please provide the output of:
pmount -d /dev/cdrom
>> Well, the great thing about pmount is that it precisely calls mount
>> for devices in /etc/fstab - saving trouble (except, of course, when that
>> behavior is buggy).
>
> True. But why was it changed from a working state to using pumount for
> devices not under /media?
I'll need to investigate that. I've been neglecting pmount for a
while, and the bug count keeps increasing...
Cheers,
Vincent
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