Subject: Re: bug#17833: coreutils 8.22 df

From: "Gabor Z. Papp" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 10:59:41 +0200

* Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>:

| > $ ls -l /etc/mtab 
| > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 391 Jun 22 10:18 /etc/mtab
| > 
| > $ cat /etc/mtab 
| > /dev/md0 / ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0
| > proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
| > sysfs /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0
| > tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,relatime,size=4k,mode=755 0 0
| > devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,mode=620 0 0
| > /dev/md1 /var/archive ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 1
| > /var/archive/home /home none rw,bind 0 0
| > /var/archive/spool /var/spool none rw,bind 0 0
| > /var/archive/www /var/lib/www none rw,bind 0 0

| It's an older setup. What distro is this?

Nope.

| You could setup like newer systems by doing:

|   cp /etc/mtab{,.safe}
|   ln -nsf /proc/mounts /etc/mtab

manual says:

'but some information is lost that way, and in particular using the "user" option will fail.'