[systemd-devel] systemd 210 - mount/umount/remount

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 14.10.16 12:06, Michael Hirmke (camping at mike.franken.de) wrote:

> 1. How can I prevent systemd from mounting a manually unmounted
>    partition? The partiton should be mounted automatically during system
>    start, though.

There were some changes related to this in more recent versions of
systemd. Consider upgrading, 210 is pretty ancient.

That said, if you don't want systemd to mount the thing, consider
removing it from /etc/fstab (or setting "noauto" on the entry there)
and issuing "systemctl daemon-reload".

In never systemd versions you can also take BSD file lock on the
top-level device node in order to block udev from refreshing the
device and generating events for it.

> 2. If I would switch from mount/umount to pure systemd behaviour for
>    mounting and unmounting partitons in my script, would a command like
>    "systemctl stop|start /var/backup" be sufficient?
>    And how would a remount command (for read only or read write) look
>    like?

"systemctl stop /var/backup" is probably not going to suffice. If you
modify your partition table/disk image during runtime this means the
device will vanish from and return to systemd's view as the accesses
are serialized. Whenever the device pops up again systemd might
requeue the jobs declared in /etc/fstab via the "auto" mount option.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat