fvogt added a comment.
In D15739#486009 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D15739#486009>, @bruns wrote: > In D15739#485983 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D15739#485983>, @fvogt wrote: > > > Even if all (block) devices and their mountpoints were shown in the devices view, there would be no equivalent of "/". One loop device provides the read-only base for /, but that's actually more confusing than the current state as it looks like /, but is only a read-only view of "the past". > > > > I guess solid needs to gain support for mountpoints not backed by devices? > > > It actually already does, via the fstab backend (currently network (SMB/NFS) and various fuse mounts). Fstab in this case also includes everything in MTAB, should be quite easy to extend this. > > What is the output of `cat /proc/self/mounts` (fell free to remove anything irrelevant, like cgroups)? The entries involved in / are these: /dev/sr0 /run/initramfs/live iso9660 ro,relatime 0 0 /dev/loop0 /run/initramfs/squashfs_container squashfs ro,relatime 0 0 /dev/loop1 /run/rootfsbase ext4 ro,relatime,data=ordered 0 0 LiveOS_rootfs / overlay rw,relatime,lowerdir=/run/rootfsbase,upperdir=/run/overlayfs/rw,workdir=/run/overlayfs/work 0 0 REPOSITORY R241 KIO REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D15739 To: meven, #dolphin, #vdg, tcanabrava, ngraham, elvisangelaccio Cc: andriusr, fvogt, meven, elvisangelaccio, Codezela, davidc, tcanabrava, ndavis, romangg, bruns, davidedmundson, abetts, svenmauch, broulik, acrouthamel, kde-frameworks-devel, LeGast00n, michaelh, ngraham