On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 07:28:54PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > seems like -vf has broken along the way ... with util-linux-2.12, you could > get a nice fstabish output: > $ mount -nfv / -o remount > /dev/sda3 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime) > > with current 2.13 though, mount gets angry: > $ mount -nfv / -o remount > mount: according to mtab, /dev/sda3 is already mounted on / > -mike
Good catch. discussion: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.utilities.util-linux-ng/107/focus=153 patch: http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/util-linux-ng/util-linux-ng.git;a=commitdiff;h=bb369b14044f822e36097928efe9c121a225f9cb;hp=8d5807b942631fc9bd7894f7a254ed4fd54cb039 code: /* The "mount -f" checks for for existing record in /etc/mtab (with * regular non-fake mount this is usually done by kernel) */ if (fake && mounted (spec, node)) die(EX_USAGE, _("mount: according to mtab, " "%s is already mounted on %s\n"), spec, node); There should be if (!(flags & MS_REMOUNT) && fake && mounted (spec, node)) Karel -- Karel Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
