Re: anyone using Debian around ??

[Andrew Clausen]

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