On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 9:00 PM, Jarry <mr.ja...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10-Nov-15 14:22, Tom H wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 12:32 AM, Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>> >>> Can you try replacing /etc/mtab with a symlink to /proc/self/mounts to >>> see if it makes any difference? That triggers different code paths in >>> several programs. >> >> Is "/" shown when you run "df -a"? If it's shown, then there's a bug >> in coreutils (as long as they accept a bug on a system where mtab >> isn't a symlink) because, AFAIR, "df" should show the mount with the >> shortest mount path if a filesystem's mounted more than once. > > vs5-dns ~ # df -a > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda2 - - - - / <snip> > /etc/bind - - - - /chroot/dns/etc/bind > /var/bind - - - - /chroot/dns/var/bind > /var/log/named 10138552 2300032 7300460 24% /chroot/dns/var/log/named > > So there *is* /, but strangely it has no size. But it suddenly does > have its proper size as soon as I stop bind running: > > vs5-dns ~ # df -a > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda2 10138552 2300024 7300468 24% / <snip>
It must be a bug that it's "/var/log/named" that shows the size of "/". Most likely same bug as not showing "/" when simply running "df".
