On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 05:26:58PM +0200, Marcin Szewczyk wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> one last issue I have with findmnt is that it seems that it won't show
> any output if I point to a subdirectory of a mountpoint. For example
> when the whole system is mounted from a single partition and I would
> like findmnt to show me some information about / by pointing to
> /boot/extlinux.
>
> The idea is based on the df command capability to do such a thing. But
> df gives less options in general. I would like to patch one of Debian's
> scripts in the extlinux package. Now it uses df to determine drive where
> the /boot/extlinux directory resides. It causes problems if / is AUFS.
> Findmnt will show the correct block device but I have to loop cutting
> off path segments one by one and check if I can find a mount.
>
> Have I missed something? Or is there a possibility of having this kind
> of functionality in the future?
Yes, I'll implement it.
Karel
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