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- From: jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.)
- Subject: Re: Another mount-bug?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.022344.10941@muddcs.claremont.edu>
- Sender: news@muddcs.claremont.edu (The News System)
- Organization: Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR
- References: <1992Aug18.132054.6572@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 02:23:44 GMT
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- 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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- + Jim Winstead Jr. (CSci '95)
- | Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR
- | jwinstea@jarthur.Claremont.EDU
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