Re: df ignores ramdisk mount

Chris Wedgwood (chris@cybernet.co.nz)
Mon, 15 Jun 1998 12:46:50 +1200


df uses /etc/fstab (more specifically getmntent I guess).

/ isn't always in the fstab for a verity of reasons with boot floppies, but
under normal circumstances should pretty much match /proc/mounts

-chris

On Mon, Jun 15, 1998 at 09:13:22AM +0930, Michael Talbot-Wilson wrote:
> Hi. Talking about boot/root floppies with the root filesystem on
> a ramdisk.
>
> With recent 2.1.x kernels df returns headings but no info.
>
> I seem to remember that back about 2.1.54 a mount on /dev/ram0 was
> reported.
>
> cat /proc/mounts says / mounted on /dev/root.
>
> I have df (GNU fileutils) 3.16 using libc.so.6.
>
> --Mike
>
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