From: Mario Blättermann Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2025 17:49:24 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Fix markup in mount.8.adoc X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=289b46feb23bd0b89990e8939ed32c36fee8e811;p=thirdparty%2Futil-linux.git Fix markup in mount.8.adoc --- diff --git a/sys-utils/mount.8.adoc b/sys-utils/mount.8.adoc index 4deee23fe..eeb6e25fb 100644 --- a/sys-utils/mount.8.adoc +++ b/sys-utils/mount.8.adoc @@ -786,7 +786,7 @@ ____ Allow to make a target directory (mountpoint) if it does not exist yet. The optional argument _mode_ specifies the filesystem access mode used for *mkdir*(2) in octal notation. The default mode is 0755. This functionality is supported only for root users or when *mount* is executed without suid permissions. The option is also supported as *x-mount.mkdir*, but this notation is deprecated since v2.30. See also *--mkdir* command line option. *X-mount.nocanonicalize*[**=**_type_]:: -Allows disabling of canonicalization for mount source and target paths. By default, the `mount` command resolves all paths to their absolute paths without symlinks. However, this behavior may not be desired in certain situations, such as when binding a mount over a symlink, or a symlink over a directory or another symlink. The optional argument _type_ can be either "source" or "target" (mountpoint). If no _type_ is specified, then canonicalization is disabled for both types. This mount option does not affect the conversion of source tags (e.g. LABEL= or UUID=) and fstab processing. +Allows disabling of canonicalization for mount source and target paths. By default, the `mount` command resolves all paths to their absolute paths without symlinks. However, this behavior may not be desired in certain situations, such as when binding a mount over a symlink, or a symlink over a directory or another symlink. The optional argument _type_ can be either "source" or "target" (mountpoint). If no _type_ is specified, then canonicalization is disabled for both types. This mount option does not affect the conversion of source tags (e.g. *LABEL=* or *UUID=*) and _fstab_ processing. + The command-line option *--no-canonicalize* overrides this mount option and affects all path and tag conversions in all situations, but for backward compatibility, it does not modify open_tree syscall flags and does not allow the bind-mount over a symlink use case. +