[arch-general] Partition mounting in systemd [WAS: Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd]

[Tom Gundersen]

On Aug 15, 2012 2:53 AM, "Oon-Ee Ng" <ngoonee.talk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:55 AM, David Benfell
> > <benfell at parts-unknown.org> wrote:
> >> Does systemd not use the standard
> >> mount program and follow /etc/fstab?
> >
> > It does. Though it does not use "mount -a", but rather mounts each fs
> > separately.
>
> Ah, that ties in nicely with the weird symptoms I'm seeing right now.
> For background, you can read my recent forum post here -
> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1146498#p1146498 but its
> not necessary to this question
>
> Basically as part of troubleshooting the above problem, I attempted to
> reformat my /home partition (/dev/sda3) on my desktop to btrfs after
> quitting X and stopping the related stuff. I also tried this from a
> new boot without ever touching X.
>
> umount /dev/sda3 worked, but mkfs.btrfs didn't, giving me 'still
> mounted' errors. When I boot without systemd (initscripts only) then
> umounting and mkfs.btrfs works fine.
>
> Related - when I run systemctl -a | grep sda I get (on my systemd
> laptop, but got the same on my desktop), trimmed for readability
> dev-sda.device            loaded active   plugged       ST9250827AS
> dev-sda1.device           loaded active   plugged       ST9250827AS
> sys-devi...da-sda1.device loaded active   plugged       ST9250827AS
> sys-devi...da-sda2.device loaded active   plugged       ST9250827AS
>
> Do I need to do something additional to get systemd to 'give up'
> partitions totally?

What does findmnt say?