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

Lennart Poettering lennart at poettering.net
Sun Dec 20 13:49:43 UTC 2020


On Sa, 19.12.20 15:31, Mantas Mikulėnas (grawity at gmail.com) wrote:

> > 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?

That is in fact a great idea. I like. Any chance you can file an RFE
about this?

Lennart

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