I type:

df

and it spits this out:
Yo! Why is my root partition mounted twice?
And why doesn't it say /dev/hda9 instead of /dev/root or rootfs?

I'm using devfsd if that's important.

It sort of looks like you have /etc/mtab linked to /proc/mounts

That's not the way it should be in my opinion.


david@slacker:~$ cat /etc/mtab
/dev/hda2 / ext3 rw 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0 0


david@slacker:~$ cat /proc/mounts
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
/dev/root / ext3 rw 0 0
none /dev devfs rw 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0 0

root@slacker:~# mv /etc/mtab /etc/mtab2
root@slacker:~# ln -s /proc/mounts /etc/mtab

david@slacker:~$ df
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 5928940 4929216 693688 88% /
/dev/root 5928940 4929216 693688 88% /

root@slacker:~# mv /etc/mtab2 /etc/mtab

david@slacker:~$ df
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 5928940 4929216 693688 88% /






It should be noted that `mount` maintains both /proc/mounts and /etc/mtab. It is ok to make it the way you have it to some extent. It will cause some inconvenience and should be seperate files as they are not supposed to be identical.

Sweet! I did this:

mv /etc/mtab /etc/mtab.old
cp /etc/mtab.old /etc/mtab
emacs /etc/mtab

I then deleted one line and fixed the other line to say /dev/hda9 like I wanted

DON'T FORGET:
rm /etc/mtab~

I forgot to do this and everything went haywire. Stupid emacs!