Re: [PATCH] Skip "rootfs" entry when checking for ext4 filesystem.

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Ravi reported a failure w/o it:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm playing with e4defrag from e2frprogs git, and I've run into a bug.
> When I try to defragment files on my root filesystem, it refuses to
> acknowledge that the filesystem is ext4. I believe the problem is that
> it checks the filesystem type by parsing /etc/mtab, but the root
> filesystem shows up there like this:
> 
> rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
> /dev/root on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,barrier=1,data=ordered)
> 
> so it gets confused by the bogus first entry. It works just fine on
> other ext4 filesystems I have.
> 
> (If this is the wrong mailing list, I apologize; I couldn't find one for
> e2fsprogs, so I thought this was the next best thing.)
> 
> --Ravi

Thanks,
-Eric

Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Skip "rootfs" entry when checking for ext4 filesystem.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> diff --git a/misc/e4defrag.c b/misc/e4defrag.c
> index 82e3868..0d04df9 100644
> --- a/misc/e4defrag.c
> +++ b/misc/e4defrag.c
> @@ -430,6 +430,8 @@ static int is_ext4(const char *file)
>  	}
>  
>  	while ((mnt = getmntent(fp)) != NULL) {
> +		if (mnt->mnt_fsname[0] != '/')
> +			continue;
>  		len = strlen(mnt->mnt_dir);
>  		ret = memcmp(file_path, mnt->mnt_dir, len);
>  		if (ret != 0)
> 
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