systemd-remount-fs.service(8)

systemd-remount-fs.service8

Remount root and kernel file systems

Usage

systemd-remount-fs.service

Overview

systemd-remount-fs.service is an early boot service that applies mount options listed in fstab(5), or gathered from the partition table (when systemd-gpt-auto-generator(8) is active) to the root file system, the /usr/ file system, and the kernel API file systems. This is required so that the mount options of these file systems — which are pre-mounted by the kernel, the initrd, container environments or system manager code — are updated to those configured in /etc/fstab and the other sources. This service ignores normal file systems and only changes the root file system (i.e. /), /usr/, and the virtual kernel API file systems such as /proc/, /sys/ or /dev/. This service executes no operation if no configuration is found (/etc/fstab does not exist or lists no entries for the mentioned file systems, or the partition table does not contain relevant entries).

For a longer discussion of kernel API file systems see API File Systems[1].

Note: systemd-remount-fs.service is usually pulled in by systemd-fstab-generator(8), hence it is also affected by the kernel command line option fstab=, which may be used to disable the generator. It may also be pulled in by systemd-gpt-auto-generator(8), which is affected by systemd.gpt_auto and other options.

Notes

1.

API File Systems

https://systemd.io/API_FILE_SYSTEMS

Releases

7 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie); the text changed 6 times.

  1. 8
  2. 9
  3. 10
  4. 11
  5. 12
  6. 13
  7. Arch

From systemd 262.1-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.