From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 23 May 2001 18:14:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 23 May 2001 18:13:55 -0400 Received: from mailhost.tue.nl ([131.155.2.5]:1038 "EHLO mailhost.tue.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 23 May 2001 18:13:45 -0400 Message-ID: <20010524001335.A11589@win.tue.nl> Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 00:13:35 +0200 From: Guest section DW To: Dave Mielke Cc: "Linux Kernel (mailing list)" Subject: Re: nfs mount by label not working. In-Reply-To: <20010523231213.A11564@win.tue.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: ; from Dave Mielke on Wed, May 23, 2001 at 05:34:22PM -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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