[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] How can mountall.sh be working?

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> The current mountall.sh uses this mount command, after the proc file
> systems are mounated
> 
>   mount -a -t noproc,nfs,nfs4,smbfs,cifs,ncp,ncpfs,coda,ocfs2,gfs \
>      -O no_netdev

This is correct, the first "no" negates *all* others (see mount manpage).

> If I read it correctly, it will mount all mount points that are not
> proc, as well as nfs, nfs4, smbfs, etc.  Is that correct
> interpretation of the mount command?

It wil not mount proc, it will not mount nfs, it will not mount gfs, etc.

> If that is the correct interpretation, I fail to see how mountall.sh
> can work properly.  It is not supposed to mount nfs, nfs4, etc file
> systems.  Is it?

Probably it works because something else is being intelligent and working
around the breakage...

> I suspect this patch is needed.  Am I right or just confused?  It used
> to look very similar to this in revision 724, before the code to hide
> the /proc mount problem was added.
> 
> Index: debian/initscripts/etc/init.d/mountall.sh
> ===================================================================
> --- debian/initscripts/etc/init.d/mountall.sh   (revision 913)
> +++ debian/initscripts/etc/init.d/mountall.sh   (working copy)
> @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
>         # Mount local file systems in /etc/fstab.
>         #
>         mount_all_local() {
> -           mount -a -t nfs,nfs4,smbfs,cifs,ncp,ncpfs,coda,ocfs2,gfs \
> +           mount -a -t nonfs,nonfs4,nosmbfs,nocifs,noncp,noncpfs,nocoda,noocfs2,nogfs \
>                 -O no_netdev
>         }
>         pre_mountall
> 
> Time to head for bed.  This do not make sense.  Hope it is is better
> in the moring. :)

Try "mount -a -t nonfs,nfs4,smbfs,cifs,ncp,ncpfs,coda,ocfs2,gfs..."

>From the manpage:

      More than one type may be specified in a comma  separated list.  The
      list of file system types can be prefixed with no to specify the file
      system types on which no action should be taken.  (This can be
      meaningful with the -a option.)

      For example, the command:
           mount -a -t nomsdos,ext
      mounts all file systems except those of type msdos and ext.

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