What on earth is mounted?

Tom H tomh0665 at gmail.com
Wed May 25 18:35:48 UTC 2011


On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Tom Horsley <horsley1953 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I was checking to see if I had everything mounted that I wanted
> in a newly genned f15 system, and I see this insanity in
> the output from running "mount":
>
> /dev/sda2 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=continue,user_xattr,acl,barrier=0,data=ordered)
> /dev/sda2 on /tmp type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=continue,user_xattr,acl,barrier=0,data=ordered)
> /dev/sda2 on /var/tmp type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=continue,user_xattr,acl,barrier=0,data=ordered)
> /dev/sda2 on /home type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=continue,user_xattr,acl,barrier=0,data=ordered)
>
> Where on earth do those /tmp /var/tmp and /home entries come from?
> They certainly aren't all mounted on top of the same filesystem root.
> There are no entries for them in /etc/fstab. What is going on?
>
> They also all show up with identical free space entries in the
> output from the df command.
>
> This is just wayyyy confusing.
>
> Can I make it stop somehow and leave them as ordinary subdirectories
> as they have always been?

Been meaning to install F15 to check this out because this happened to
me with the Alpha and I thought that I'd screwed up royally somewhere
or that F15 still wasn't ready for use/testing...


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