Note that /proc must be mounted for filesystem type autodetection

to work.  Without /proc mounted, one must explicitly specify the
type of every filesystem being mounted.

diff --git a/include/usage.h b/include/usage.h
index 05fd23129fe3a88241280c95e468a2dec7b0c4ae..9390e3415497d895e2d0f000891844d7d6696f2f 100644 (file)
--- a/include/usage.h
+++ b/include/usage.h
@@ -1696,7 +1696,8 @@
 #define mount_trivial_usage \
        "[flags] DEVICE NODE [-o options,more-options]"
 #define mount_full_usage \
-       "Mount a filesystem\n\n" \
+       "Mount a filesystem.  Autodetection of filesystem type requires the\n" \
+       "/proc filesystem be already mounted.\n\n" \
        "Flags:\n"  \
        "\t-a:\t\tMount all filesystems in fstab.\n" \
        USAGE_MTAB( \