Re: [lopsa-tech] How to problematically identify the root volume.

2012-04-13 Thread david
On Fri, 13 Apr 2012, Skylar Thompson wrote: On 04/12/12 08:18, Michael C Tiernan wrote: I am working on a small project and I have the need to identify the root volume on a running linux system from inside a script. For the moment I'm in the Red Hat EL environment but I'm expecting it to deve

Re: [lopsa-tech] How to problematically identify the root volume.

2012-04-13 Thread Skylar Thompson
On 04/13/12 06:20, Jonathan wrote: > Hi, > > stat --format='%D' / > > will give you the major & minor device of the root file system, if > that is what you need. > > Jonathan Oops, indeed. I misread the original email and thought Michael was looking for a way to programatically find the root files

Re: [lopsa-tech] How to problematically identify the root volume.

2012-04-13 Thread Jonathan
Hi, stat --format='%D' / will give you the major & minor device of the root file system, if that is what you need. Jonathan On 13/04/12 13:56, Skylar Thompson wrote: On 04/12/12 08:18, Michael C Tiernan wrote: I am working on a small project and I have the need to identify the root volum

Re: [lopsa-tech] How to problematically identify the root volume.

2012-04-13 Thread Skylar Thompson
On 04/12/12 08:18, Michael C Tiernan wrote: > I am working on a small project and I have the need to identify the root > volume on a running linux system from inside a script. For the moment I'm in > the Red Hat EL environment but I'm expecting it to develop into a wider > application. > > I can