[systemd-devel] Mount options for ESP, LUKS and rootfs in automatic partition discovery and mounting

[Mantas Mikulėnas]

On Sat, Dec 19, 2020, 14:40 Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net>
wrote:

> On Sa, 28.11.20 01:26, Bastien Traverse (neitsab at esrevart.net) wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > Is it possible to specify mount options for ESP, root and LUKS devices
> when
> > using automatic partition discovery and mounting with no fstab?
>
> There's not, currently.
>
> THere's an RFE issue open asking to support rootflags= on the kernel
> cmdline for the automatically discovered rootfs (that's the option the
> kernel uses on traditional rootfs mounting). I think that definitely
> makes sense, it just needs someone to implement things.
>
> I figure in the long run systemd-gpt-auto-generator probably needs
> some minimal config file where you can configure these
> options. Alternatively, maybe initially adding kernel cmdline params
> for each type of mount would suffice (i.e. building on the rootflags=
> idea, for the other file systems). Please file an RFE bug about this
> on github if that'd would work for you. (or even better, hack it up,
> provide a patch).
>

If the admin is going to customize it anyway then maybe /etc/fstab should
be that config file? Instead of gpt-generator, why not make udev create a
"/dev/disk/by-purpose/efi" symlink and use that as the fstab device...
Would that technically work?
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