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Re: mount weirdness



On 2019-08-08, Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 11:52:41AM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
>>The central riddle is how mount(8) can fail to make the filesystem
>>available without visibly reporting an error.
>>A question about "mount -v" and its exit value is pending.
>>Maybe one should also look at dmesg output after such a silent failure.
>
> Yes, there are often messages in dmesg which do not appear in the mount 
> output. I don't think the kernel API for mount passes those to the 
> caller. I'd want to see that, and also the filesytem type (which, if 
> mentioned, got lost in this wandering thread).
>
>


sdb2 xfs      Work-Area-1  20173008-eeaa-41cd-b862-f7d0b871895d  241.9G    65% /wa11

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