>>>>> "Roderick" == Roderick A Anderson <[email protected]> writes:

Roderick> Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>>>>>>> "Roderick" == Roderick A Anderson <[email protected]> writes:
>> 
Roderick> df . | grep ^/dev | cut -d ' ' -f 1
>> 
>> Beware... I've seen df wrap the first column on a long device name, like:
>> 
>> /dev/
>> somereallylongmountpoint

Roderick> OOPS!  I was only seeing the line after the device name wrap.

Yes, I point this out because *most* of the time, it works,
but I got burned once on an automated tool I wrote because I didn't
realize it wraps occasionally.

And this was BSD, so it might not apply to the GNU versions.
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