Re: [gentoo-user] df showing rootfs

[Daniel Iliev]

On Sun, 11 May 2008 17:35:10 -0400
Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.EDU> wrote:

> On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 10:44:39PM +0300, Penguin Lover Daniel Iliev
> squawked:
> > Are you, guys, doing some funky remounts like switch_root or
> > pivot_root (perhaps in initrd or initfs)?
> >
>
> Not that I know of. I am definitely not using initfs or initrd. Don't
> know about switch_root or pivot_root (where would those come up?)

[START OT]
Think of those as of one-file images of a very basic GNU/Linux system,
which are used when you need to do some things before mounting
the "real" root FS. The kernel extracts those images in the RAM as
root file system executes the commands they contain After this "basic"
system has finished its job you need to switch to the "real" system by
mounting the "real" root and executing the "real" /sbin/init. Then you
use "switch_root" or "pivot_root" to tell the kernel to drop the root fs
from the RAM and start working with the "real" root fs.
[END OT]

>
> I am curious why it reads "rootfs" and "/dev/root" in the output of df
> instead of "/dev/hda2" as I have it in my /etc/fstab, and why there
> are two entries.
>
> W


Alright. Perhaps "man libblkid".

Which leads me to one *really wild* guess after which I'm out of
ideas. Try refreshing your block device identification cache by:

rm /etc/blkid.tab* && blkid



P.S.

"On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 10:44:39PM +0300, Penguin Lover Daniel Iliev
squawked: ..."    <-- *ROFL* !




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