Jon Dowland <j...@debian.org> writes:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 03:25:05PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> What df should do is automatically skip the entries that are obscured or
>> generally inaccessible
>
> I disagree. It's quite conceivable for a user to accidentally mount two
> things over the same VFS path. When they do, they may rely on df(1)'s
> output to help them untangle the mess. If one of the two mounts is hidden,
> they may not be able to fathom what they did: worse, they might tug a disk
> with a mounted filesystem by accident, being unable to determine that it
> was mounted.
>
> --
> Jon Dowland
"skip" could also mean show -- instead of bogus numbers for the obscured
filesystems.
MfG
Goswin
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