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<refentry id="systemd-remount-fs.service">
- <refentryinfo>
- <title>systemd-remount-fs.service</title>
- <productname>systemd</productname>
+ <refentryinfo>
+ <title>systemd-remount-fs.service</title>
+ <productname>systemd</productname>
- <authorgroup>
- <author>
- <contrib>Developer</contrib>
- <firstname>Lennart</firstname>
- <surname>Poettering</surname>
- <email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
- </author>
- </authorgroup>
- </refentryinfo>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author>
+ <contrib>Developer</contrib>
+ <firstname>Lennart</firstname>
+ <surname>Poettering</surname>
+ <email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
+ </author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ </refentryinfo>
- <refmeta>
- <refentrytitle>systemd-remount-fs.service</refentrytitle>
- <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
- </refmeta>
+ <refmeta>
+ <refentrytitle>systemd-remount-fs.service</refentrytitle>
+ <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
+ </refmeta>
- <refnamediv>
- <refname>systemd-remount-fs.service</refname>
- <refname>systemd-remount-fs</refname>
- <refpurpose>Remount Root and Kernel File Systems</refpurpose>
- </refnamediv>
+ <refnamediv>
+ <refname>systemd-remount-fs.service</refname>
+ <refname>systemd-remount-fs</refname>
+ <refpurpose>Remount root and kernel file systems</refpurpose>
+ </refnamediv>
- <refsynopsisdiv>
- <para><filename>systemd-remount-fs.service</filename></para>
- <para><filename>/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-remount-fs</filename></para>
- </refsynopsisdiv>
+ <refsynopsisdiv>
+ <para><filename>systemd-remount-fs.service</filename></para>
+ <para><filename>/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-remount-fs</filename></para>
+ </refsynopsisdiv>
- <refsect1>
- <title>Description</title>
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Description</title>
- <para><filename>systemd-remount-fs.service</filename>
- is an early-boot service that applies mount options
- listed in
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>fstab</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- to the root file system and the kernel API virtual
- file systems. This is required so that the mount
- options of these file systems -- which are pre-mounted
- by the kernel, the initial RAM disk or system manager
- code -- are updated to those listed in
- <filename>/etc/fstab</filename>. This service ignores
- normal file systems and only changes the root file
- system (i.e. <filename>/</filename>) and the virtual
- kernel API file systems such as
- <filename>/proc</filename>, <filename>/sys</filename>
- or <filename>/dev/</filename>. This service executes
- no operation if <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> does
- not exist or lists no entries for the root file system
- or the kernel API VFS.</para>
- </refsect1>
+ <para><filename>systemd-remount-fs.service</filename> is an
+ early-boot service that applies mount options listed in
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>fstab</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ to the root file system, the <filename>/usr</filename> file system
+ and the kernel API file systems. This is required so that the
+ mount options of these file systems -- which are pre-mounted by
+ the kernel, the initial RAM disk, container environments or system
+ manager code -- are updated to those listed in
+ <filename>/etc/fstab</filename>. This service ignores normal file
+ systems and only changes the root file system (i.e.
+ <filename>/</filename>), <filename>/usr</filename> and the virtual
+ kernel API file systems such as <filename>/proc</filename>,
+ <filename>/sys</filename> or <filename>/dev</filename>. This
+ service executes no operation if <filename>/etc/fstab</filename>
+ does not exist or lists no entries for the mentioned file
+ systems.</para>
- <refsect1>
- <title>See Also</title>
- <para>
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>fstab</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>mount</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- </para>
- </refsect1>
+ <para>For a longer discussion of kernel API file systems see
+ <ulink url="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/APIFileSystems">API
+ File Systems</ulink>.</para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>See Also</title>
+ <para>
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>fstab</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>mount</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ </para>
+ </refsect1>
</refentry>