mount -u -r drops nosuid ?

Matthew D. Fuller fullermd at over-yonder.net
Mon Nov 21 13:20:34 PST 2005


On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 08:43:42AM -0500 I heard the voice of
Lowell Gilbert, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> I think it is safer (less room to shoot yourself in the foot) to
> have the flags be exactly the ones you specified in the remount (no
> more, no less) than to have to know exactly what the state was
> beforehand.  But clearly it's possible to surprise the operator
> either way.

This is where -o current comes in.


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