From: Juha Laiho (jlaiho@ichaos.nullnet.fi)
Date: 05/20/93


From: jlaiho@ichaos.nullnet.fi (Juha Laiho)
Subject: Re: df: can't read table of mounted fs's
Date: Thu, 20 May 1993 08:58:16 GMT

In article <1tbnqqINNis0@spiff.seattleu.edu> aehall@calvin.seattleu.edu (short-timer!) writes:
>Just the other day I tried to do a "df" and got the following message:
>df: cannot read table of mounted filesystems
>
>About the only things I did different were to mess around some more with
>X and to load the new /lib/libc.so.4.3.3 and /lib/libm.so.4.3.3.
>
>What's up?
The 4.3.3 libes. This gets asked and replied a few times a week.. maybe you
ought to read c.o.l. a bit more often. Yes, the feed is big, but it's possible
to read c.o.l. and number of other groups as well.

The solutions:
Be sure you have the mount-0.99.6. If you don't have it, go and get it.
Remove any 'rdev >/etc/mtab' lines from your /etc/rc.
Be sure you have correct entry for your root fs in the /etc/fstab.
Mount the filesystems with 'mount -av' in /etc/rc. (Check that /etc/mtab*
gets removed BEFORE the mount)

>(Also, could someone uuencode and send me a "du", I accidently zapped mine.)
Source is available in the GNU fileutils package.

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