Linda Walsh wrote: > Note -- I don't recall doing anything with mtab BEFORE -- BUT I may have > made sure it was a separate file years ago when I started using lvm. > > Recently it was changed back to a symlink and on top of that -- whether > it is a file or a symlink, mount doesn't seem to show the "non-canon" name > (i.e. /dev/Vol/Log...) > (though oddly enough -- "df" does!).. > -------------- Note, to give an example of what is broken if you DO link /etc/mtab -> /proc/self/mounts: (from 'df''): /dev/root 12G 8.8G 3.3G 73% / /dev/sdc6 15G 10G 5.0G 67% /usr /dev/sdc2 7.8G 2.0G 5.9G 25% /var /dev/sdc2 7.8G 2.0G 5.9G 25% /tmp /dev/sdc3 908M 585M 323M 65% /boot /dev/mapper/HnS-Share 1.5T 1.4T 153G 91% /Share /dev/mapper/HnS-Home 1.0T 792G 233G 78% /home /dev/mapper/HnS-Squid_Cache 128G 43G 86G 33% /var/cache/squid /dev/mapper/Backups-Backups 11T 9.7T 1.3T 89% /backups /dev/mapper/Media-Media 7.3T 6.4T 943G 88% /Media /dev/HnS/Home-2013.03.29-21.00.11 1.5G 1.3G 208M 86% /home/.snapdir/@GMT-2013.03.29-21.00.11 /dev/HnS/Home-2013.04.06-13.22.10 2.4G 2.1G 369M 85% /home/.snapdir/@GMT-2013.04.06-13.22.10 /dev/HnS/Home-2013.04.08-05.07.04 1.2G 1008M 155M 87% /home/.snapdir/@GMT-2013.04.08-05.07.04 /dev/HnS/Home-2013.04.10-05.07.03 1.2G 1.1G 160M 87% /home/.snapdir/@GMT-2013.04.10-05.07.03 /dev/HnS/Home-2013.04.12-05.07.03 1.2G 1010M 153M 87% /home/.snapdir/@GMT-2013.04.12-05.07.03 /dev/HnS/Home-2013.04.24-05.07.02 1.0T 792G 233G 78% /home/.snapdir/@GMT-2013.04.24-05.07.02 /dev/HnS/Home-2013.04.16-05.07.03 8.1G 6.8G 1.3G 85% /home/.snapdir/@GMT-2013.04.16-05.07.03 ---- The only correct entries above are /dev/sdc? and the /dev/HnS/ lines, but the last lines are correct as they are mounted by a script that mounts the snapshot and it uses no-canonicalize on mount. The LVM volumes mounted at boot from /etc/fstab don't match the names in fstab. The output from mount is worse -- it has the last entries wrong as well -- even though no-canonicalize was specified on mount (as df shows), mount shows: /dev/mapper/HnS-Home--2013.03.29--21.00.11 on /home/.snapdir/@GMT-2013.03.29-21.00.11 type xfs (rw,relatime,attr2,inode64,logbsize=64k,sunit=128,swidth=1536,noquota) /dev/mapper/HnS-Home--2013.04.06--13.22.10 on /home/.snapdir/@GMT-2013.04.06-13.22.10 type xfs (rw,relatime,attr2,inode64,logbsize=64k,sunit=128,swidth=1536,noquota) /dev/mapper/HnS-Home--2013.04.08--05.07.04 on /home/.snapdir/@GMT-2013.04.08-05.07.04 type xfs (rw,relatime,attr2,inode64,logbsize=64k,sunit=128,swidth=1536,noquota) /dev/mapper/HnS-Home--2013.04.10--05.07.03 on /home/.snapdir/@GMT-2013.04.10-05.07.03 type xfs (rw,relatime,attr2,inode64,logbsize=64k,sunit=128,swidth=1536,noquota) /dev/mapper/HnS-Home--2013.04.12--05.07.03 on /home/.snapdir/@GMT-2013.04.12-05.07.03 type xfs (rw,relatime,attr2,inode64,logbsize=64k,sunit=128,swidth=1536,noquota) /dev/mapper/HnS-Home--2013.04.24--05.07.02 on /home/.snapdir/@GMT-2013.04.24-05.07.02 type xfs (ro,relatime,nouuid,norecovery,attr2,inode64,logbsize=64k,sunit=128,swidth=1536,noquota) /dev/mapper/HnS-Home--2013.04.16--05.07.03 on /home/.snapdir/@GMT-2013.04.16-05.07.03 type xfs (rw,relatime,attr2,inode64,logbsize=64k,sunit=128,swidth=1536,noquota) If I use separate /etc/fstab && mtab, then running "mount -f -no-canonicalize -a" will fix all of the paths to match what is in /etc/fstab -- FOR 'df'' -- but not for mount... mount stays broken either way. -- 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
