Package: util-linux Version: 2.20.1-1 Severity: wishlist Hi,
when /etc/mtab is a file one can hide mountpoints by not listing them in /etc/mtab. Also some mountpoints listed in /etc/mtab were ignored by tools like df. Specifically bind mounts. With /etc/mtab being a symlink to /proc/mounts this is no longer possible and the output of tools like df can grow quite a lot. This becomes anyoing when using for example schroot. Every chroot I start (bind) mounts /, /dev, /dev/pts, /proc, /sys, /home, /tmp, /run. So every running chroot adds another 8 entries to the df output, which quickly becomes quite confusing. To solve this problem I would like to request a new mount option "hidde". The option should have no effect in the kernel other than that it gets listed in /proc/mounts. On the user-space side though tools like df can then skip those entries unless they get told to list all entries (df -a). Mount could automatically set the "hidde" option for bind mounts to preserve the old behaviour. There also should be an option "unhide" to turn of "hidde". so the following would work: mount -oremount,hide /run # No longer show /run in df output mount -oremount,unhide /run # Show /run in df output again MfG Goswin -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages util-linux depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.41 ii dpkg 1.16.1.2 ii initscripts 2.88dsf-13.13 ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-8 ii libblkid1 2.20.1-1 ii libc6 2.13-21 ii libncurses5 5.9-4 ii libselinux1 2.1.0-4 ii libslang2 2.2.4-3 ii libtinfo5 5.9-4 ii libuuid1 2.19.1-5 ii lsb-base 3.2-28 ii tzdata 2011n-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 util-linux recommends no packages. Versions of packages util-linux suggests: pn console-tools 1:0.2.3dbs-70 pn dosfstools 3.0.12-1 pn util-linux-locales <none> -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org