On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 04:02:02PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: > 1) How is one supposed to get the real root device? > It's not /dev/root -- and on my system /dev/root doesn't even exist. > (though to be fair, it has in the past -- udev musta got sloppy this time, > and did point to the real root device). But how can I get /proc to display > the real root device instead of some fake name. > > It's insecure the way it is -- as /dev/root could be "anything"... I don't think this is util-linux issue. It's more distro specific and related to kernel & initramfs & udevd. For example my Fedora 18: $ findmnt / TARGET SOURCE FSTYPE OPTIONS / /dev/sda4 ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered $ df / Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda4 35146488 16233036 17121452 49% / $ grep ' / ' /proc/mounts rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 /dev/sda4 / ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 0 > 2) I'd like lvm's naming to be available through mount. Ideally, lvm's > naming would be available in /proc/mounts... At least, though > in going from /dev/VG/LV => /dev/mapper/VG-LV, that can be > scripted reliably to get the mount device name. For example lsblk(8) should be able to convert to the /dev/mapper format lsblk -rno NAME /dev/VG/LV you can also use /dev/VG/LV for findmnt(8), it should be able to convert the names for /dev/mapper/VG-LV to search for mountpoint. .. or use /dev/mapper/<name> in your /etc/fstab ;-) Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- 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