Just ran into one "interesting" bit of information... It's impossible to tell from /proc/mounts if a specific mount point corresponds to the root of that particular filesystem. Consider the following /etc/mtab: /dev/md6 /export ext3 rw 0 0 /export/home/hpa /home/hpa none rw,bind 0 0 /export/home/suzi /home/suzi none rw,bind 0 0 ... and the corresponding /proc/mounts ... /dev/md6 /export ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0 /dev/md6 /home/hpa ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0 /dev/md6 /home/suzi ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0 /proc/mounts gives absolutely no hint that /home/hpa and /home/suzi don't correspond to the root of the filesystem /dev/md6. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html