Re: df and /etc/mtab
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 05:46:15PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> df (disk free) doesnt work under hurd, i think in linux it uses
> //proc/mounts or /etc/mtab to get a list of mounted partitions.
>
> Is there any plan as to how this should work under hurd ?
There is no central repository of "mounted filesystems" and the architecture
doesn't allow to enforce one anyway (as registration of such data would be
purely optional). We might add a server for this at some time, or just
recurse through all filesystems. However, what works is "df PATH", like "df /".
Marcus
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