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["James Miller (office)" <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Sat, 8 Nov 2003 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> James Miller (office) wrote:
> >
> > I recall a discussion onlist not long ago about where the df
> > command reads its data from.
>
> Are you sure that was here?  I vaguely remember the discussion,
> but I thought it was on linuxnewbie.
>
Yeah, I guess it could have been there rather than here.

> If df is wrong, then something is probably wrong with the mounting
> of that partition.  It could be the mount command itself (eg. the
> busybox version of mount can cause problems) or a misidentified
> partition or a corrupted partition or a partition on the verge of
> hardware failure.
>
The drive/partition is automounted at boot because it's the root
partition.  fstab has the right entry for the root partition (/dev/hda1),
but when I do df it reports the root partition as /dev/root.  I'm almost
sure the problem is with the install-to-HD script that was used for this
distro: it's a live CD distro that comes with the option (in beta, as you
might guess) to install to a fixed disk.  As I'm recalling, the root
partition in the ramdisk that's used by distros that run from floppy
(like BL) or CD is called /dev/root.  It seems like there might be a
simple way to fix it if some script just got misedited like that.  Doesn't
seem too wise or safe meantime to have the root partition showing up as
both /dev/root and /dev/hda1.

James