Re: nfs mount by label not working.

[Guest section DW <dwguest@win.tue.nl>]

On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 05:34:22PM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote:

> I presume that you're assuming that my /proc/partitions is empty because its
> size shows as 0:
>
>     ls -l /proc/partitions
>     -r--r--r--   1 root     root            0 May 23 17:31 /proc/partitions

Ah, yes, sorry - I was too quick here.

> It does, however, have several lines in it.
>
>     cat /proc/partitions
>     major minor  #blocks  name     rio rmerge rsect ruse wio wmerge wsect wuse running use aveq
>
>        3     0    6297480 hda      119 141 520 1790 0 0 0 0 0 1180 1790

But this is full of strange numbers that someone saw fit to add to /proc/partitions.
What a bad idea!

If someone changes /proc/partitions then probably the old utilities that used it
are broken. I do not have a memory, but it seems I recall fixing this already.
Try a recent mount, say from util-linux 2.11d.

[But you show IDE disks, but the subject line talks about NFS mounts?]

Andries