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Bug#251794: analysis



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.

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