This is weird. On potato, running mke2fs wipes out the existing /etc/mtab file (it's zero size) such that `df' and `mount' have no record of any mounted filesystems.
Anyone else seen this? I use e.g. mke2fs -m 0 -i 16384 /dev/hda3 -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada. 418-775-0852 FAX: 775-0546 6623'rd GNU/Linux user at the Counter - http://counter.li.org/