Hi, Consider trying to answer the question "What partition is mounted on /" (it happens to be /dev/sda3 in this example), when /etc/mtab is a symlink pointing to /proc/mounts: 1) mount(8) /dev/root on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,data=ordered) Nope, that's not /dev/sda3. And what is /dev/root anyway? There's no such node under /dev here. 2) df(1) Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs 20642428 1576788 18017064 9% / /dev/root 20642428 1576788 18017064 9% / Uh-oh - now I appear to have 2 filesystems mounted at '/' (yes, I know you can tell by the same stats that it is in fact the same FS). What is this rootfs entry? 3) lsblk(8) NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT sda3 ext3 /lfs aaf09e8b-d50e-429e-ba8e-11fa07ab5b75 Well, that's odd. I know that /dev/sda3 is mounted at /, but apparently lsblk(8) doesn't! If /etc/mtab is a real file, then the output of all 3 commands is correct (and by that I mean it shows /dev/sda3). As all 3 utils show the same issue, I assume this is something to do with libblkid? Thanks, Matt. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
