On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 01:57:08PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > 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?
No. You can copy /proc/mounts to /etc/mtab to restore the data. It's possible to create a symlink from /proc/mounts to /etc/mtab, but certain filesystems, eg: loopback and RAM, IIRC, don't get freed properly if this is the case. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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