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perseus

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Registered: 2007-01-28

Posts: 160

Why does mtab show /dev/root rather than the partition mounted on /

Sorry if I have missed something I should have read, but can anybody explain please why my mtab no longer contains a reference to the actual partition which is mounted as root.  I have:

/dev/root / ext3 rw,relatime,errors=continue,data=writeback

but no reference to the partition.

TIA

loafer

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Registered: 2009-04-14

Posts: 1,772

Re: Why does mtab show /dev/root rather than the partition mounted on /

It's related to this by the looks of it (see the links in post #6).  /etc/mtab is created by copying what's in /proc/mounts.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=99417

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: Why does mtab show /dev/root rather than the partition mounted on /

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 22#p781622

Last edited by karol (2010-07-31 14:24:16)

perseus

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Registered: 2007-01-28

Posts: 160

Re: Why does mtab show /dev/root rather than the partition mounted on /

Many thanks loafer & karol

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Re: Why does mtab show /dev/root rather than the partition mounted on /

As you can see from both links above, a forum search would have led you to those already existing topics. Please use the forum search before you open a topic .

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