mount command absurdly verbose?

Andras Simon szajmi at gmail.com
Tue Nov 22 12:57:12 UTC 2011


2011/11/22, Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net>:
> Does anyone agree with me that the mount command
> (when used simply to get information)
> has become absurdly verbose?

Absolutely!

> I only use this command to determine
> what hard disks are mounted.
> Now I have to wade through large tracts of information
> that make no sense to me, to find the few lines about hard disks.
>
> Is there any way of getting the information one used to get,
> short of saying something like "mount | grep sd"?

I use df.

> I think this change already took place in Fedora-15.

That's right.

Andras


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