Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4398 mails)

[Adrian Schroeter <adrian@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 27 September 2005 08:17, jdd wrote:
> Christian Boltz wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Am Montag, 26. September 2005 19:49 schrieb Claes at work:
> >>> cd to /media/sda1 and then issue the df command, it should now show
> >>> the amount of used/free space.
> >>> Make sure you cd back to your home dir before removing the device.
> >>
> >> What is the reason the current directory is significant? I can't find
> >> an explanation for that in the df man page.
> >
> > It has nothing to do with df - it has to do with the automatic (u)mount.
> > If you are _not_ in the directory, it will not be mounted...
>
> but mount show it and df don't, is that normal?

it was a workaround for a problem with rpm and broken hardware. However, this 
has been solved for 10.0 and df should work as you expect again.

bye
adrian

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Adrian Schroeter
SuSE AG,  Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany
email: adrian@xxxxxxx