[systemd-devel] mounting the root file system using systemd unit file

[fb.dev.gen]

@Mantas: yes, that seems logical. So, I'd better go with systemd-boot
UEFI Boot Manager.

-- Ben


On Sun, 2016-05-15 at 16:34 +0300, Mantas Mikulėnas wrote:
> On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 3:28 PM, fb.dev.gen <fb.dev.gen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > What should be the way to mount the root file system using systemd
> > unit
> > file (i.e: without any `/etc/fstab` configuration file)?
> Asking the system to mount anything at / doesn't make much sense,
> because the fact that systemd is running and can read its unit files
> already means the rootfs is mounted... (There's always something
> mounted at /; if it's not the real rootfs, then it's the initramfs or
> something.)
> 
> If you're just trying to *re*mount / with different options, that's
> not done via .mount units – it's done by systemd-remount-fs, which
> always parses the fstab. But in that case, why not specify the
> correct mount options in the first place? Putting
> "rootflags=discard,noatime" in the kernel command line should be
> enough.
> 
> -- 
> Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity at gmail.com>