[plug] df mandrake 9.1 -> 9.2

Cameron Patrick cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au
Thu Jan 1 19:12:22 WST 2004


On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 07:07:46PM +0800, James Devenish wrote:

| What does /etc/mtab look like?

Hmm, good question.  Looking at this surprised me, actually:

$ grep /bigdrive /etc/mtab
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 /bigdrive reiserfs rw 0 0
$ grep /bigdrive /proc/mounts
/dev/hda4 /bigdrive reiserfs rw 0 0

Bizarre - I would actually have expected mtab to contain the same as the
fstab but /proc/mounts to contain the kernel's idea of what the devices
were.  I actually suspect that the latter might be a spot that the devfs
people missed when altering the kernel to use their new device names?

Cameron.




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