But it would be a nice feature to add. Each filesystem could report the
filesystems mounted on it, and df could walk that tree.

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Patrik Olsson <p...@xaci.be> wrote:

> On 11/04/11 21:40, startx wrote:
> > hello.
> >
> > as another long time reader on this list (several years) i got excited
> > again about the activity recently and setup hurd in qemu again a couple
> > of days ago.
> >
> > one thing i stumbled upon is that if i try to excute "df" i get
> >
> >    df: cannot read table of mounted file systems
> >
> > what does this mean? is this just a bug or do i need to give df some
> > specific options?
> >
>
> I think this is because Hurd cannot know all mounted filesystems due to
> the decentralized nature of the architecture. So you basically need to
> manually select the filesystem(s) you want to check. For example "df /".
>
> /Patrik
>
>

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