Bug 69335

Summary:	Systemd handles bind mounts in a way that is incompatible to the SysV-style init
Product:	systemd	Reporter:	ggb12.10.Toranaga-San
Component:	general	Assignee:	systemd-bugs
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	systemd-bugs
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
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Description ggb12.10.Toranaga-San 2013-09-13 19:15:01 UTC

Hello all,

I have noticed the following problem using bind mounts: I have an encrypted disk which I mount at "/media/crypt". The disk does in particular contain my home directory. Since I would like to access my home via "/home" I used a bind mount like so:

mount -o bind /media/crypt/home/ /home

After that, "ls /home" gives me the home directory "username". To make this permanent I added

/media/crypt/home       /home         bind    defaults,bind            0 0

to my /etc/fstab. Unfortunately once I restart my system and type "ls /home" I get a new "home" directory, in total "/home/home/username" instead of "/home/username". So apparently systemd mounts "/media/crypt" on the mountpoint "/home" instead of binding "/home" to "/media/crypt/home".

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