On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 10:08:12 -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: >So: mount an additional proc filesystem and compare contents, >particularly your secondary proc's 'mounts' file: > > $ mkdir /proc2 > $ mount -t proc proc /proc2 > $ cat /proc2/mounts > <etc> > $ umount /proc2; rmdir /proc2
Ahhh... Excellent tip.. I had not even considered this. >> Once I did a rm -r on the fake /proc all was well. So I guess the >> moral is don't trust the output of 'mount' if things are flaky or at >> least cross check it with /etc/mtab. > >In general, if you're not sure of /proc's status or your root >partition's writeability, neither the 'mount' command, /etc/mtab, nor >/proc/mounts are going to be trustworthy. However, the fact that they were different tipped me off that _something_ was bogus and that I could not trust what mount was telling me. So the fact they are different is a clue to investigate further. But I'll note the above. The only true way to cross check it to mount a new procfs and take a look. Excellent advice. -- Richard A. Smith Bitworks, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 501.846.5777 x204 Sr. Design Engineer http://www.bitworks.com
