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apport-collect 1483325 and then change the status of the bug to 'Confirmed'. If, due to the nature of the issue you have encountered, you are unable to run this command, please add a comment stating that fact and change the bug status to 'Confirmed'. This change has been made by an automated script, maintained by the Ubuntu Kernel Team. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete ** Tags added: trusty -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1483325 Title: mount -t overlayfs misinforms when nonexisting directories are provided Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Consider the directory structure like this: root@MIKE /tmp/ofs> ls -al total 20 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Aug 10 18:09 . drwxrwxrwt 9 root root 4096 Aug 10 18:09 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 10 18:09 lower drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 10 18:09 mounting drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 10 18:09 upper Mounting upper over lower on mounting mount point works just fine: root@MIKE /tmp/ofs> mount -t overlayfs myoverlay -o lowerdir=lower,upperdir=upper mounting/ root@MIKE /tmp/ofs> df -Th mounting/ Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on myoverlay overlayfs 219G 94G 114G 46% /tmp/ofs/mounting root@MIKE /tmp/ofs> However if the directory name is misspelled (that is, we're providing wrong directory), the error message is misleading: 32 root@MIKE /tmp/ofs> mount -t overlayfs myoverlay -o lowerdir=IAMWRONG,upperdir=upper mounting/ mount: special device myoverlay does not exist I'm running this on Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS, using 3.13.0-61-generic kernel. I'm not sure if this fits under 'linux' package, but I can't seem to be able to find 'mount' package in Launchpad. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1483325/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp