From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268541AbUJDWaE (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Oct 2004 18:30:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268693AbUJDW1f (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Oct 2004 18:27:35 -0400 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:63498 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268541AbUJDVgB (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Oct 2004 17:36:01 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 22:35:54 +0100 From: Russell King To: "Jeff V. Merkey" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jmerkey@comcast.net Subject: Re: 2.6.9-rc2-mm4 stat -f sickness Message-ID: <20041004223554.D21216@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: "Jeff V. Merkey" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jmerkey@comcast.net References: <4161B6AF.1010705@drdos.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <4161B6AF.1010705@drdos.com>; from jmerkey@drdos.com on Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 02:46:39PM -0600 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 02:46:39PM -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > In 2.6.9-rc2-mm4 the command "stat -f /dev/" always returns > EXT2_SUPER_MAGIC and other bogus information even if other filesystems > are mounted on the device. Please read the statfs manpage carefully. You will find that statfs does not report the filesystem type found inside the "path" you asked for, but the filesystem type _containing_ the path. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/ 2.6 Serial core