Fixed aix spec failure when the target state is to disable the mount.

Signed-off-by: antima-gupta <agupta@msystechnologies.com>

2 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/lib/chef/provider/mount.rb b/lib/chef/provider/mount.rb
index f8c71c6706..44fb94ca01 100644
--- a/lib/chef/provider/mount.rb
+++ b/lib/chef/provider/mount.rb
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ class Chef
       # Returns the new_resource device as per device_type
       def device_fstab
         # Removed "/" from the end of str, because it was causing idempotency issue.
-        device = @new_resource.device.chomp("/")
+        device = @new_resource.device == "/" ? @new_resource.device : @new_resource.device.chomp("/")
         case @new_resource.device_type
         when :device
           device
diff --git a/spec/functional/resource/mount_spec.rb b/spec/functional/resource/mount_spec.rb
index 55738a4326..cecacbd6a3 100644
--- a/spec/functional/resource/mount_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/functional/resource/mount_spec.rb
@@ -129,8 +129,9 @@ describe Chef::Resource::Mount, :requires_root, external: include_flag do
   end
 
   # Actual tests begin here.
-  before(:all) do
+  before(:all) do |test|
     @device, @fstype = setup_device_for_mount
+    @device =  "/" if test.metadata[:skip_before]
 
     @mount_point = Dir.mktmpdir("testmount")
 
@@ -145,13 +146,20 @@ describe Chef::Resource::Mount, :requires_root, external: include_flag do
   end
 
   after(:all) do
-    Dir.rmdir(@mount_point)
+    Dir.rmdir(@mount_point) if @mount_point
   end
 
   after(:each) do
     cleanup_mount(new_resource.mount_point)
   end
 
+  describe "when device is '/'" do
+    it "should mount the filesystem if device is '/'", :skip_before do
+      new_resource.run_action(:mount)
+      mount_should_exist(new_resource.mount_point, new_resource.device)
+    end
+  end
+
   describe "when the target state is a mounted filesystem" do
     it "should mount the filesystem if it isn't mounted" do
       expect(current_resource.enabled).to be_falsey