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| author | Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> | 2022-08-14 02:00:00 +0200 |
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| committer | Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> | 2022-08-14 02:00:00 +0200 |
| commit | 6c2e14a43a86258204e19fe5cbac4a77374bab3f (patch) | |
| tree | 6a69d8030c446367af4e2ebc2cc8aee6089031b3 | |
| parent | 6983ded42bd3dcd29425cb6823e7c74640f28a00 (diff) | |
doc: Note the pitfalls of man 8 mount.
* doc/guix.texi (File Systems): Warn against flags presented as options.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 64adafd3f9..b8b1b9ad7c 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -16430,8 +16430,11 @@ Manual}, for more information on these flags. @item @code{options} (default: @code{#f}) This is either @code{#f}, or a string denoting mount options passed to the file system driver. @xref{Mount-Unmount-Remount,,, libc, The GNU C -Library Reference Manual}, for details and run @command{man 8 mount} for -options for various file systems. +Library Reference Manual}, for details. + +Run @command{man 8 mount} for options for various file systems, but +beware that what it lists as file-system-independent ``mount options'' are +in fact flags, and belong in the @code{flags} field described above. The @code{file-system-options->alist} and @code{alist->file-system-options} procedures from @code{(gnu system file-systems)} can be used to convert |