Re: Why is /dev on a different filesystem ? [Kernel 2.6.20.3]

From: Andreas Schwab
Date: Wed Mar 21 2007 - 17:33:05 EST


"Paul Rolland" <rol@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> and df -a reports :
> [root@host-181 src]# df -a
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1 7936256 3105556 4421048 42% /
> proc 0 0 0 - /proc
> sysfs 0 0 0 - /sys
> devpts 0 0 0 - /dev/pts
> tmpfs 517632 0 517632 0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hda5 61787140 237360 58360480 1% /usr/local/witbe
> /dev/hda2 4956316 142292 4558192 4% /var/log
> none 0 0 0 -
> /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
>
> So, obviously, /dev is on /, but the stat(2) says no.
> Who is right, and where is the bug ?

Try cat /proc/mounts, apparently when /dev was mounted /etc/mtab wasn't
updated appropriately.

Andreas.

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