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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Information request: root directory not listed by df
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:16:48
Message-Id: h8ujg9$gme$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Information request: root directory not listed by df by "Alan E. Davis"
1 On 09/18/2009 02:20 AM, Alan E. Davis wrote:
2 > I followed the method outlined in the Gentoo installation docs, placing
3 > /boot on a small partition. Then when booting, I specify the root
4 > directory in grub.conf.
5 >
6 > The device is listed in /etc/fstab
7 >
8 > /dev/sda4 / ext3
9 > noatime 0 1
10 >
11 > However, df doesn't list /dev/sda4. Is this because it was specified as
12 > a parameter?
13 > The following are listed by df:
14 >
15 > rootfs 9780176 8060012 1223356 87% /
16 > /dev/root 9780176 8060012 1223356 87% /
17
18 This is normal. It's just that df does not dereference symlinks;
19 /dev/root is a symlink, in your case to /dev/sda4. That's how the root
20 filesystem gets mounted these days.
21
22
23 > You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but
24 > when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the
25 > bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing---that's what
26 > counts.
27
28 If that's supposed to be a sig, could you please make that more apparent?