Hi Matt, On 10/31/2012 12:03 AM, Matt Burgess wrote: > 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: I'll only answer for df here because it is not part of util-linux, but rather in the coreutils package. > 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? That rootfs entry comes from early boot time when '/' is mounted on itself. BTW there is already a discussion on the coreutils ML about this: http://www.mail-archive.com/coreutils@xxxxxxx/msg03582.html > As all 3 utils show the same issue, I assume this is something to do > with libblkid? No, df doesn't use libblkid. It uses gnulib's function read_file_system_list () to read the mount list. Have a nice day, Berny -- 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
