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NAME top

   /proc/pid/mountinfo - mount information

DESCRIPTION top

   _/proc/_pid_/mountinfo_ (since Linux 2.6.26)
          This file contains information about mounts in the
          process's mount namespace (see [mount_namespaces(7)](../man7/mount%5Fnamespaces.7.html)).  It
          supplies various information (e.g., propagation state, root
          of mount for bind mounts, identifier for each mount and its
          parent) that is missing from the (older) _/proc/_pid_/mounts_
          file, and fixes various other problems with that file
          (e.g., nonextensibility, failure to distinguish per-mount
          versus per-superblock options).

          The file contains lines of the form:

          36 35 98:0 /mnt1 /mnt2 rw,noatime master:1 - ext3 /dev/root rw,errors=continue
          (1)(2)(3)   (4)   (5)      (6)      (7)   (8) (9)   (10)         (11)

          The numbers in parentheses are labels for the descriptions
          below:

          (1)  mount ID: a unique ID for the mount (may be reused
               after [umount(2)](../man2/umount.2.html)).

          (2)  parent ID: the ID of the parent mount (or of self for
               the root of this mount namespace's mount tree).

               If a new mount is stacked on top of a previous
               existing mount (so that it hides the existing mount)
               at pathname P, then the parent of the new mount is the
               previous mount at that location.  Thus, when looking
               at all the mounts stacked at a particular location,
               the top-most mount is the one that is not the parent
               of any other mount at the same location.  (Note,
               however, that this top-most mount will be accessible
               only if the longest path subprefix of P that is a
               mount point is not itself hidden by a stacked mount.)

               If the parent mount lies outside the process's root
               directory (see [chroot(2)](../man2/chroot.2.html)), the ID shown here won't
               have a corresponding record in _mountinfo_ whose mount
               ID (field 1) matches this parent mount ID (because
               mounts that lie outside the process's root directory
               are not shown in _mountinfo_).  As a special case of
               this point, the process's root mount may have a parent
               mount (for the initramfs filesystem) that lies outside
               the process's root directory, and an entry for that
               mount will not appear in _mountinfo_.

          (3)  major:minor: the value of _stdev_ for files on this
               filesystem (see [stat(2)](../man2/stat.2.html)).

          (4)  root: the pathname of the directory in the filesystem
               which forms the root of this mount.

          (5)  mount point: the pathname of the mount point relative
               to the process's root directory.

          (6)  mount options: per-mount options (see [mount(2)](../man2/mount.2.html)).

          (7)  optional fields: zero or more fields of the form
               "tag[:value]"; see below.

          (8)  separator: the end of the optional fields is marked by
               a single hyphen.

          (9)  filesystem type: the filesystem type in the form
               "type[.subtype]".

          (10) mount source: filesystem-specific information or
               "none".

          (11) super options: per-superblock options (see [mount(2)](../man2/mount.2.html)).

          Currently, the possible optional fields are _shared_, _master_,
          _propagatefrom_, and _unbindable_.  See [mount_namespaces(7)](../man7/mount%5Fnamespaces.7.html)
          for a description of these fields.  Parsers should ignore
          all unrecognized optional fields.

          For more information on mount propagation see
          _Documentation/filesystems/sharedsubtree.rst_ (or
          _Documentation/filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt_ before Linux
          5.8) in the Linux kernel source tree.

SEE ALSO top

   [proc(5)](../man5/proc.5.html)

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