Re: df: auto fs's don't show in normal df

[Jim Meyering]

Burton Windle <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello. I recently started using Ext3, and based on advice on the LKML,
> changed my /etc/fstab to mount / as auto (incase I didn't have ext2
> support). This was tested on 2.4.16, as well as 2.5.1-pre4.
>
> Now, my / partition doesn't show up in 'df' unless I do 'df -a' or
> explictly as for /
>
> If I change my /etc/fstab to mount / as ext3 instead of auto, it works
> again.

Thanks for the report.
However, this doesn't seem to be a problem with df.

I suspect that you're not using new enough tools like mount
or a new enough libc.  I've just created an ext3 partition,
marked it as `auto' in /etc/fstab, and rebooted.  Now, df lists
it and df -T shows its type as `ext3'.

I'm using libc-2.2.4, mount-2.11m, e2fsck-1.25, and linux-2.4.16.