Steve Scrimpshire Posted October 16, 2003 Report Share Posted October 16, 2003 I've noticed in 9.2 (maybe 9.1 too, after some updates) that now when I do df -a or other commands that show devices, that it now shows their true paths like /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 instead of /dev/hda1 Why is that? Is that a feature of devfs and can I make it go back to the way it did work? My fstab has the /dev/hda1 and stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted October 17, 2003 Report Share Posted October 17, 2003 what you're seeing is the actual devfs device for your partition, /dev/hda1 is just a symlink to it...and no i don't know how to change it, but i did notice it myself ;-) just like /dev/cdrom points to /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 which in turn points to /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/cd now clue why mandrake sets it up that way..guess for ease of use? in arch i never had a /dev/cdrom just /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 which pointed to said devfs entry... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest danc Posted November 6, 2003 Report Share Posted November 6, 2003 Just to revive the thread a little... has anyone figured out how to change the output of "df" back to the way it used to be...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted November 6, 2003 Report Share Posted November 6, 2003 i haven't yet, but if someone doesn't post i'll look into it later this evening (i'm at class right now). i don't think it has to do with /etc/fstab but you might want to take a peak into that.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted November 6, 2003 Report Share Posted November 6, 2003 I believe it's reading the /proc fs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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