Re: df 4.5.3 returning misleading/incorrect info

[Bob Proulx]

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From: Frank 'xraz' Fricke <address@hidden>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 14:57:48 +0100
To: address@hidden (Bob Proulx)
Subject: Re: df 4.5.3 returning misleading/incorrect info

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On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 10:07:52 -0700
address@hidden (Bob Proulx) wrote:

|Frank 'xraz' Fricke <address@hidden> [2002-12-09 11:36:47 +0100]:
|
|> now if i unmount /dev/hde2:
|> 
|> |xr2k:~# umount /dev/hde2
|> |xr2k:~# df -m /dev/hde2
|> |Filesystem           1M-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
|> |/dev/hde2                 5946      2519      3125  45%
|> 
|> it displays the values of /dev/hda1 claiming it's /dev/hde2 !
|
|Yes and no.  It displays the values of / and makes no claim as to what
|it is.  That looks like a bug.  It should list / in the "Mounted on"
|field but that field is empty.

and it should list /dev/hda1 in the first field. saying
|Filesystem
|/dev/hde2
at least looks like a claim to me :)

|At the point in the time that there is no mount associated with
|/dev/hde2 then that file is absolutely no different than any other
|file which is under "/".  There is no way to tell the difference.

thats the point - why does it the show a diefference to a normal file
under / ?

shouldn't then

|xr2k:~# df -m /dev/hde2
|Filesystem           1M-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
|/dev/hde2                 5946      2519      3125  45%

not display the same as:

|xr2k:~# df -m /etc/passwd
|Filesystem           1M-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
|/dev/hda1                 5946      2519      3125  45% /

?
don't get me wrong: i can absolutely live with this behaviour. it
irritates only one time :)
but it looked more like an inaccuracy in the code wich maybe could
lead to other things...
i'm sorry i don't have the time to look at the sources myself atm.

regards...

   ...Frank

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