From: jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.) Subject: Re: Another mount-bug? Date: 19 Aug 1992 02:23:44 GMT
In article <1992Aug18.132054.6572@athena.mit.edu> EL204%DHAFEU11.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu writes:
>Hello,
>i think the mount command on the root disk has another bug.
>The entry in "/etc/mtab"-file contains the string
>"/dev/xxxx" for the devices mounted, but i think there
>should only be the basename of the mounted device.
>Am i wrong?
Not wrong, just assuming the wrong behavior. :)
The mount program (and the umount program there, too) wrote entries
into /etc/mtab without the leading /dev/, but it was wrong to do so.
It's not safe to assume that everything being mounted resides in
/dev. Especially if you are running with Werner Almesberger's loop
devices patch. 'mount /root.fs /mnt' is one of my favorite commands.
:)
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