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On 27 Mar 2003, Christian Laursen wrote:

> The other day, I upgraded the components of a software package
> that I maintain, including updating the kernel from 2.4.18 to
> 2.4.20.
>
> I noticed something strange: / is now listed twice in /proc/mounts
> like this
>
> rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
> /dev/root / ext2 rw 0 0
>
> It confused one of my scripts, so I had to implement a quick workaround.
>
> Is this a feature or a bug?
>

 Is your /etc/mtab a symlink to /proc/mounts ? That is generally
thought not to be a good idea.

Ken

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