Hi Karel, on coreutils' mailing list, we regularly receive complaints about df(1) not working properly with bind mounts, and it turns out that the users' system still has /etc/mtab as a regular file. (There were recently a lot of attempts to fix issues with duplicate mounts and over-mounting - and thus eclipsing - of source or target.) Well, there might be a bug in df(1), anyway, we'd like to advise the user to switch to mtab as a symlink to /proc/mounts or /proc/self/mounts as it is common nowadays on many distros. But then the user reads "man 8 mount" ... It is possible to replace /etc/mtab by a symbolic link to /proc/mounts, and especially when you have very large numbers of mounts things will be much faster with that symlink, but some information is lost that way, and in particular using the "user" option will fail. ... and is scared about the last sentence. Is this still true? I don't have problems with mounting "user" file systems (apart from ntfs-3g) here. What are the problems, and if they still exist, could the details be added to the man page, please? Thanks & 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
