[Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release util-linux-2.20.1-1.mga2

Sat Oct 29 23:15:16 CEST 2011

'Twas brillig, and Dick Gevers at 26/10/11 21:48 did gyre and gimble:
+> On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:40:07 -0400, andre999 wrote about Re: [Mageia-dev]
+> [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release util-linux-2.20.1-1.mga2:
+> 
+>>> This gives me weird output for df:
+> 
+>>> All bind mounts are duplicated !
+> 
+> Since systemd I also have some duplicates (although less now then a couple
+> of weeks ago):
+> 
+> rootfs             17G  7.6G  8.1G  49% /
+> /dev/sda5          17G  7.6G  8.1G  49% /
+
+This is expected. It was masked previously with /etc/mtab hacks.
+
+> tmpfs             5.9G  632K  5.9G   1% /run
+> tmpfs             5.9G  632K  5.9G   1% /run
+
+This is a bug, but is actually fixed in this util-linux release - you do
+however need to regenerate the initrd to get the fix.
+
+> And this is completely superfluous (also not in fstab):
+> 
+> tmpfs             5.9G     0  5.9G   0% /media
+
+This is simply something done by systemd to ensure that /media is
+writable. Some filesystems have readonly / and thus cannot have such
+mountpoints added. Using tmpfs ensures that all mount points can be
+created easily.
+
+The actual partion size is pretty much irrelevant. It doesn't use that
+space at all, it's just what the tmpfs driver does when it's loaded
+without specifying a specific size. As the memory is just addressable,
+but not allocated, there is no real need to artificially lower the size.
+
+All the best
+
+Col
+
+
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+Colin Guthrie
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