From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 27 6:52:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E68E537B41B for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 06:52:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 59760 invoked by uid 100); 27 Feb 2002 14:52:18 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15484.62114.185076.33762@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 08:52:18 -0600 To: Ceri Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount -a In-Reply-To: <56194747@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.46 (Python 2.2; freebsd-4.5-STABLE-i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ceri 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. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message