Joey Hess wrote: > According to the log file, os-prober never scans the mounted partitions > at all. One possibulity would be due to symlinks. os-prober looks in > /dev/discs for partitoons, and then for each partitoon, if it is listed > in /proc/mounts, scans it as a mounted partiton. If devfs offers another > path to the partition, or if somehow what is in /proc/mounts does not > match the /dev/disks entry, then it would not run the mounted tests. > > This may explain why I did not reproduce this bug when mounting a > partition by hand; if I used the right devfs path. Verified. To further confuse things, the 2.4 kernel allows a ntfs filesystem that is already mounted to be mounted read-only in another location, but if the same thing is tried with fat32, the second mount fails. -- see shy jo
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