[Bash-completion-devel] [bash-completion-Bugs][313437] mount completion from fstab only does not make sense

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Bugs item #313437, was changed at 2011-11-04 22:36 by Igor Murzov
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>Status: Pending
Priority: 3
Submitted By: Ville Skyttä  (scop-guest)
Assigned to: Nobody (None)
Summary: mount completion from fstab only does not make sense 
Distribution: None
Originally reported in: Fedora / Red Hat Bugzilla
Milestone: None
>Status: Fix Committed
Original bug number: 750795 


Initial Comment:
Forwarding report from Red Hat Bugzilla here because I don't personally have a real opinion on this:

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# mount /de[tab]
# mount /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_
[...]
This type of completion just does not make sense at all. There is plenty of
other devices in /dev/ I want to use and I want my completion to work as
expected. This is highly annoying!


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>Comment By: Igor Murzov (garik-guest)
Date: 2011-12-15 20:41

Message:
New linux-only mount completion is now available in the master branch.

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Comment By: Igor Murzov (garik-guest)
Date: 2011-11-05 06:53

Message:
Ok, I do have an opinion actually and I completely agree with the statement in the summary. I don't personally use completions on fstab entries and I suppose, that most people use fstab mostly for mounting something at boot time. For me, the most useful usecases are:

 mount --bind ~/dir /srv/ftp/pub
 mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop image.iso /mnt/iso

and both of this cases are not handled by bash-completion. I would like mount's completion to be redone with different usecases in mind, not only mounting entries from fstab. Also, I fixed '-o loop' and '--bind' handling for myself, but haven't pushed this work upstream, because I don't know how mount works on systems other than Linux. But I think we can provide different completion variants for different systems, so at least some systems will get functional completion.

Also, this bug is actually a duplicate of #313214.


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