If I have: host:/path /mountpoint nfs defaults 0 0 in /etc/fstab, mount then "mount /mountpoint" the entry that appears in /proc/mounts is host:/path/ /mountpoint nfs ..... Note the extra '/'. This confused mount. If I run mount -a -t nfs,nfs4 -f -v -n -i (as I might in a script to check if all NFS mountpoints are actually mounted), it thinks that /mountpoint is not correctly mounted. If I edit /etc/fstab to put the '/' in, 'mount' is not confused any more and reports correctly. So: Why do we get the trailing '/'? Is it really needed or is it a bug? If it is really needed I suspect we need to teach 'mount' to ignore such things.... but is it guaranteed that requesting "/path/" from the server is exactly the same as requesting "/path" ??? It certainly is for NFSv4 and any v3 server that handled the two differently could certainly be considered to be odd, but is it definitely wrong? Thought? Thanks, NeilBrown
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