Re: [OT] mount ... quiet
On 2009-09-11 01:23 +0200, Mike McClain wrote:
> This has nothing to do with Debian per se but my system is mostly Etch, so.
>
> man mount says:
> quiet Turn on the quiet flag. Attempts to chown or chmod files do not
> return errors, although they fail. Use with caution!
This is in the "Mount options for fat" section. I don't know what will
happen if you use this option for better filesystems, but I suspect that
either there will be an error message, or it will be ignored.
> While I can see where this could have unpleasant repercussions when
> used on a 'nix partition, it seems to be called for on a MSDOS
> partition and I can see no repercussions.
>
> Am I missing something?
Actually, the chmod and chown calls do not report an error even if you
do _not_ use the quiet option. They did in Linux 2.6.25, but it caused
a lot of grief in applications, so the kernel developers relaxed the
checks again in later versions.
Sven
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