Hi, I'm using a shared root environment and therefore linked /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts. In addition I'm using --bind mount to make administration easier.
Now I found the following behaviour: # mount -a is mounting all filesystems with bind options in the fstab everytime the command "mount -a " is executed. That works fine using an /etc/mtab file, but fails for --bind mounts using /etc/mtab linked to /proc/mounts. I think this is because /etc/mtab has information about the source directory and /proc/mounts shows the device, hosting the filesystem. e.g. # mount --bind /tmp/bmount/ /mnt/bmount/ # cat /etc/mtab (...) /tmp/bmount /mnt/bmount none rw,bind 0 0 # cat /proc/mounts (...) /dev/root /mnt/bmount ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0 Is there a solution for this ? Thanks, Mark - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/