Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 585216
tmpwatch doesn't skip directories mounted with --bind
Last modified: 2011-04-05 17:37:04 EDT
Description of problem: The tmpwatch man page mentions 'will not switch filesystems', but a bind mount of another directory in the same filesystem seems not to get skipped. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): tmpwatch-2.9.17-1.fc12.x86_64 How reproducible: Easy Steps to Reproduce: 1. mkdir /tmp/stupid ; mount --bind /home /tmp/stupid 2. wait for cron to call tmpwatch 3. Actual results: du -s /home gives a very low value Expected results: du -s /home shouldn't be influenced by tmpwatch Additional info:
Thanks for your report. The behavior can probably be argued to be technically correct - but the safe thing to do would indeed be to detect bind mounts.
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I have added bind mount skipping added in upstream changeset 79123aa14f4e, but it needs changes for F15.
Thanks!
tmpwatch-2.10.2-1.fc15 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 15. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/tmpwatch-2.10.2-1.fc15
Package tmpwatch-2.10.2-1.fc15: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 15 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing tmpwatch-2.10.2-1.fc15' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/tmpwatch-2.10.2-1.fc15 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
tmpwatch-2.10.2-1.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.