Mount posixovl using fstab

Question

The following line:

/path1  /path2  posixovl    none    0   0

fails with the error:

/sbin/mount.posixovl: invalid option -- 'o'
Usage: /sbin/mount.posixovl [-F] [-S source] mountpoint [-- fuseoptions]

This is because mount.posixovl uses a non standard mount syntax, and fstab will call it assuming default mount syntax, eg.

mount.posixovl /path1 /path2 -o [whatsoever_/etc/fstab_options]

EDIT #1: Same problem, solved with an uglier hack in this linuxquestions.org Q&A titled: [SOLVED] How to get a fuse-posixovl partition mounted at bootup?

Answer 1

I wrote a wrapper for mount.posixovl that enables it to be used with fstab

First, rename /sbin/mount.posixovl to something else, like /sbin/mount.posixovl.orig

Finally, create a new file /sbin/mount.posixovl whith the following contents:

#!/bin/bash
# wrapper for mount.posixovl to conform with common mount syntax
# with this wrapper posixovl can be used in fstab

# location of the original mount.posixovl
origposixovl="/sbin/mount.posixovl.orig"

# gather inputs
while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
        if [[ "$1" == -* ]]; then
                # var is an input switch
                # we can only use the -o or -F switches
                if [[ "$1" == *F* ]]; then
                        optsF="-F"
                else
                        optsF=""
                fi
                if [[ "$1" == *o* ]]; then
                        shift
                        optsfuse="-- -o $1"
                else
                        optsfuse=""
                fi
                shift
        else
                # var is a main argument
                sourcedir="$1"
                shift
                if [[ "$1" != -* ]]; then
                        targetdir="$1"
                        shift
                else
                        targetdir="$sourcedir"
                fi
        fi
done

# verify inputs
if [ "$sourcedir" == "" ]; then
        echo "no source specified"
        exit 1
fi
if [ "$targetdir" == "" ]; then
        echo "no target specified"
        exit 1
fi

# build mount.posixovl command
"$origposixovl" $optsF -S "$sourcedir" "$targetdir" $optsfuse

Naturally, set the newly created /sbin/mount.posixovl to be executeable (chmod +x /sbin/mount.posixovl)

I hope this can help someone in the future with mounting posixovl trough fstab