Fedora 15 and mount points

[Tom H]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 4:46 AM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
> Am 12.08.2011 00:43, schrieb Tom H:
>>>
>>> Seems this is a known *feature* of F-15 and no one is all that interested in
>>> changing it.  Unfortunately, I have a good number of scripts that use the
>>> output of df and mount that would need modified for this.  The /var/tmp
>>> mount is especially troubling...
>>
>> I thought that their outputs, especially that of findmnt, would've
>> clarified the output of mount, except for the three sandbox bind
>> mounts.
>>
>> Suggestions for replacing mount in your scripts:
>> findmnt -lnu -o SOURCE,TARGET,FSTYPE,OPTIONS
>> findmnt -lnsu -o SOURCE,TARGET,FSTYPE,OPTIONS
>> findmnt -o SOURCE,TARGET,FSTYPE,OPTIONS -S /dev/sda1
>> findmnt -o SOURCE,TARGET,FSTYPE,OPTIONS -T /
>> findmnt -n -o SOURCE,TARGET,FSTYPE,OPTIONS -S /dev/sda1
>> findmnt -n -o SOURCE,TARGET,FSTYPE,OPTIONS -T /
>
> this does not solve the problem with thousands of applications
> like df, mlocate and mount: if a change forces a lot of programs
> and scripts to be changed anybody who made it is a little naive
> to believe the world is turning around him and should hurry
> up fixing all this apllications he broke or revert his change!
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709351
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=730138
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723279

This thread isn't about locate and in the last bug, the developer says
"I'll fix it".

In all OSs, evolution entails changes for the users. No big deal!