Hey, you're exactly right... that box (i'm not even sure what distro it's running... mandrake?) is also using that weird naming scheme (i actually had to check mtab to see what the root really was). that seems kind of lame to do it by label instead of device file, but i guess that's the way it goes.
thanks for the info, Cameron Matheson --- Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not the details of the bug. What I was wondering > was about > /etc/fstab. The translation between device and > mounted file system > is done, I think, by using the fstab file. Recent > practice in > linux (at least recent to me) is to use some > symbolic tokens > in fstab. I see one of my laptop fedora entries is: > > LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 > > From that, I've no idea what disk device contains > "/". > Probably amanda doesn't either. > > -- > Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] > JG Computing > 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 > Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax) > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
