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Peep

Dec 30 2003, 05:09 PM

I just did a clean install of the download edition of 9.2 and things seem to be going smoothly, but this just looks weird to me:

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[bill@localhost bill]$ df
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7
5.0G 1.1G 3.9G 22% /
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8
8.4G 232M 8.2G 3% /home
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
2.6G 4.0K 2.6G 1% /mnt/windows

why doesn't it say "hda7" and "hda8" etc? is this a problem, and if so, how do i fix it? thanks

RainierPeak

Dec 30 2003, 05:51 PM

Just wanted to confirm that I have the same, weird issue.

Peep

Dec 30 2003, 06:03 PM

ok, thanks. i probably won't worry about it so much then

roland

Dec 30 2003, 06:45 PM

/dev/hdx are links. They point to things like /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/partx

roland

chris z

Dec 31 2003, 12:12 PM

i have the same problem/nuisance after upgrading to MDK9.2. after searching a bit, i found the following info.

this is a known bug with MDK9.2 & the 2.4.xx kernel. see this BUG REPORT .

excerpts from above link:

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Inside "software" forum, bgmline has posted in the "9.2 changes the way df and
mount report mounted device names" a nice example of the problems created by
this bug. The simple script:
df |awk '{print $6}'
works in 9,1, but fails in 9.2, because long devfs-style names cause the
output to appear on two lines insterad of one.

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note that the kernel-2.6.x was fixed for this problem.
maybe the fix is simple enough to be backported ?

there is a ham handed fix listed that involves editing lilo if ya wanna do it. if it is indeed fixed with the 2.6 kernel, then i'll just deal with it until i can get an rpm of that kernel that works or until (perhaps) a patch is released for the 2.4 kernel.

Chris

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