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Date:      Wed, 27 Feb 2002 08:52:18 -0600
From:      "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1015253538.970165@mired.org>
To:        Ceri <setantae@submonkey.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mount -a
Message-ID:  <15484.62114.185076.33762@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <56194747@toto.iv>

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Ceri <setantae@submonkey.net> types:
> From mount(8) :
> 
>      -a      All the filesystems described in fstab(5) are mounted.  Excep-
>              tions are those marked as ``noauto'', excluded by the -t flag
>              (see below), or if they are already mounted (except the root
>              filesystem which is always remounted to preserve traditional sin-
>              gle user mode behavior).
> 
> How does the root filesystem get remounted if there are other filesystems
> mounted which do not ?

Because that's the way the mount system call is implemented. If you
have a more specific question, I'd be glad to try and answer that, but
I'm not going to try and guess if or what it is.

	<mike
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