Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Why is /dev on a different filesystem ? [Kernel 2.6.20.3] | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:20:18 -0400 |
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On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:13:50 BST, Paul Rolland said: > > So, obviously, tar is right... > man 2 stat says : > The st_dev field describes the device on which this file resides. > > and df -a reports : > [root@host-181 src]# df -a > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda1 7936256 3105556 4421048 42% /
> So, obviously, /dev is on /, but the stat(2) says no. > Who is right, and where is the bug ?
Might want to 'cat /proc/mounts', and ponder the fact that a filesystem can be mounted and not listed in /etc/mtab, and then see if your system has 'udev' installed and enabled. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |