should df looked at /proc/mounts on linux?

2008-04-13 Thread Marty Leisner
I had a "head-scratching" incident when dealing with applications which called umount(2) and then trying to run df to see what is done. /proc/mounts is the kernels idea of what's mounted, /etc/mtab is manipulted in user space. df uses calls with look at /etc/mtab. I've heard of a technique to lin

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2008-04-13 Thread Erik Auerswald
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Re: should df looked at /proc/mounts on linux?

2008-04-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 13 April 2008, Marty Leisner wrote: > I had a "head-scratching" incident when dealing with applications > which called umount(2) and then trying to run df to see what is done. > /proc/mounts is the kernels idea of what's mounted, /etc/mtab is manipulted > in user space. > > df uses calls

Re: ls: sort on -s

2008-04-13 Thread jidanni
> "JY" == James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JY> On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 4:21 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm at the emacs' dired prompt, >> ls switches (must contain -l): -ogsS >> when I realized that -S is not good enough. >> What I want is an additional way to sort: on the -s