root directory missing from /etc/mtab (and mount and df output)
I've got an oddity I hope somebody can explain for me-
my root partition doesn't show up in mtab. Has anybody seen this before?
/proc/mounts seems fine:
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daniel@D:/$ cat /proc/mounts
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
/dev/root / ext3 rw 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
/dev/hda12 /home reiserfs rw 0 0
/dev/hda6 /boot reiserfs rw 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/C vfat rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/D vfat rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0
daniel@D:/$ mount
none on /proc type proc (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/hda12 on /home type reiserfs (rw)
/dev/hda6 on /boot type reiserfs (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /mnt/C type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=0,gid=100,umask=007)
/dev/hda5 on /mnt/D type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=0,gid=100,umask=007)
usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
daniel@D:/$ cat /etc/fstab
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy vfat defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022 0 0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 unhide,defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
/dev/hda3 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda11 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda12 /home reiserfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda6 /boot reiserfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/C vfat user,exec,uid=0,gid=100,umask=007 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/D vfat user,exec,uid=0,gid=100,umask=007 0 0
daniel@D:/$ cat /etc/mtab
none /proc proc rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
/dev/hda12 /home reiserfs rw 0 0
/dev/hda6 /boot reiserfs rw 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/C vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=0,gid=100,umask=007 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/D vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=0,gid=100,umask=007 0 0
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0
daniel@D:~$ uname -a
Linux D 2.4.19-xfs #1 SMP Son Okt 6 20:14:17 CEST 2002 i686 Pentium III
(Coppermine) GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
daniel@D:~$ mount -V
mount: mount-2.12
Although this doesn't seem to cause any problems, it seems odd.
I was thinking it might be a missing /dev file, since at one point, I
noticed that a number of disk special-files were missing, which I
re-created with no problem.
Also, /dev/root didn't exist, but I'm not sure that's supposed to?
I'm confused. :-)
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