From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from majordomo by infradead.org with local (Exim 3.16 #2) id 1433MK-0005Ng-00 for mtd-list@infradead.org; Mon, 04 Dec 2000 21:41:16 +0000 Received: from [208.166.87.138] (helo=server.rwii.com) by infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #2) id 1433MI-0005NV-00 for mtd@infradead.org; Mon, 04 Dec 2000 21:41:15 +0000 Message-Id: <200012042140.QAA08601@server.rwii.com> Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 16:40:16 -0500 (EST) From: tyson@rwii.com Subject: Re: nftl/DoC Mill. root fs question To: rminnich@lanl.gov cc: LKhatskevitch@cachier.com, mtd@infradead.org, linuxbios@lanl.gov In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-mtd@infradead.org List-ID: On 4 Dec, Ronald G Minnich wrote: > On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Levi Khatskevitch wrote: > >> it reports that / is /dev/root device and not /dev/nftla1 what did I miss? > > This is unix foolishness. Mounts are kept in /etc/mtab. Since the file > system is readonly, this won't get fixed, since you can't update files in > /etc. > > ron I run systems with read-only file systems. Among other thigs, we symlink /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts. Cheers! Ty -- Tyson D Sawyer iRobot Corporation Senior Systems Engineer Real World Interface Div. tsawyer@irobot.com Robots for the Real World 603-532-6900 ext 206 http://www.irobot.com To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe mtd" to majordomo@infradead.org