Pierre Labastie wrote:
> Le 13/01/2014 18:58, Bruce Dubbs a écrit :
>> Sometimes I pick up a new command that I wasn't aware of before.
>> Today's discovery is findmnt.
>>
>> I've been using 'mount' and 'df' for years to see what mounts are
>> available and for disk side.  I find that:
>>
>>    findmnt -ln -o SOURCE,TARGET,FSTYPE,USE%
>>
>> Gives me a very nice output that I can put into an alias that I can use
>> for either.  It also avoids the problem that I have with df of
>> displaying the root directory as /dev/root instead of /dev/sdb2 which is
>> much more informative.
>>
>>     -- Bruce
>>
> Actually, in a recent post of Karel Zak, one of the util-linux maitainers
> (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.utilities.util-linux-ng/8379), you can 
> read:
> "Note that I'd like to learn people to use findmnt(8) rather mount
>   output. The mount(8) output is there mostly for backward
>   compatibility."

Yes, that's what clued me in.

   -- Bruce
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