Re: anyone using Debian around ??

[B.Hakvoort]

Hey Andrew,

This could probably cause flawed mountdetection of the rootdevice on
some debiansystems.. (if they run kernel 2.5/2.6 and there's no
real-root-dev) I'll look into it . Expect a patch soon.

Btw, remember the frontend i mentioned? I've constructed an webpage
which can be found at gparted.sourceforge.net. I'm ready to do some
releases, but i need the mount-checking in libparted fixed, when do you
think 1.6.12 will be released? Or is there an CVS i could point my users
to?

grtz!

Bart

PS. now you know why i'm zo zealous about mount-checking, i need it for
my software :-P


On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 14:38, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> Hi Bart,
> 
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 04:54:23PM +0200, B.Hakvoort wrote:
> > The kernel 2.6.x series use /dev/root to identify the rootdevice instead
> > of the /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev file.
> > 
> > Now someone told me on Debian this isn't called /dev/root, but
> > /dev2/root2 ... Can anyone confirm/deny this? It can be important since
> > this symlink is used by libparted to check if the partition is mounted.
> 
> I can confirm this:
> 
> address@hidden:~$ cat /proc/mounts
> rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
> /dev2/root2 / ext2 rw 0 0
> proc /proc proc rw,nodiratime 0 0
> devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
> tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
> sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
> 
> Cheers,
> Andrew
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