[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Dennis) writes: > (Note: I just try to do an rmdir as the easiest way to detect > a non-empty directory *and* to detect a non-directory node named > /proc at the same time.
Modern versions of mount and fsck allow referring to ext2 file systems by LABEL or GUID (or was it UUID?) in /etc/fstab, so that it doesn't matter if disks or partitions are added or removed. When this is done with the root file system, /proc must be mounted before the root fs is checked because fsck must scan /proc/partitions. Because the root fs is normally read-only at that time, rmdir /proc won't work as a check. Of course, you could unmount /proc again after checking the root fs, but that sounds dirty.
