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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!dkuug!diku!dingbat
- From: dingbat@diku.dk (Niels Skov Olsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: 0.99 directory bug?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.155114.12595@odin.diku.dk>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 15:51:14 GMT
- References: <1992Dec17.180033.29648@walter.cray.com> <1992Dec22.235451.203@plasma.apana.org.au>
- Sender: dingbat@rimfaxe.diku.dk
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen
- Lines: 34
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- mph@plasma.apana.org.au (Martin Peter Howell) writes:
-
- >roberts@cray.com (Michael Roberts {67000 CF/DEV}) writes:
-
- >>My recent upgrade to 0.99 from 0.98.5 has yielded a bug involving
- >>floppy disks. When I mount a floppy disk with a minix filesystem
- >>on it and I change directories to the floppy disk, I get errors
- >>using "pwd" and "du". "pwd" gives the error:
-
- >> pwd: No such file or directory
-
- >>but it works fine when my current working directory is on a hard
- >>drive partition. "du" works fine on floppy directories, but if I'm
- >>in a floppy directory and "du" a hard disk directory, like "du /",
- >>I get the error:
-
- >> du: cannot get current directory: No such file or directory
-
- >I have found that trying to mount an extended or minix fs on a
- >directory that is not in the root (eg. /usr/mountpoint) always gives
- >these errors. Whereas mounting to a directory in the root is no problem.
- >I noticed this a while ago (0.98.[12]) but haven't tried it since
- >so I don't know if it has been fixed.
-
- I have used this mounting scheme for ages (!) now:
-
- # /etc/mount
- /dev/sda2 on / type minix (defaults)
- /dev/sdb1 on /usr type ext (defaults)
- /dev/sdc1 on /usr/src type ext (defaults)
-
- With absolutely no problems.
-
- Niels
-