[TriLUG] / is /dev/root and not /dev/sda?

Jack Hill jackhill at jackhill.us
Wed Jun 13 08:27:15 EDT 2012


On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:27:33 -0700 (PDT)
Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at wm7d.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
> 
> since no-one is saying that /dev/root is / on their machines (and
> they think that /dev/root is normal for /), I can't tell if I'm the
> only one with / == /dev/root. I don't know if it's the disk (sda,
> hda), kernel, udevd, the ramdisk, the distro...? Can I get a bit of a
> show of hands of people have? Just reply, filling in the columns
> below till I get an idea. Here's a few of my machines
> 
> / will be /dev/root /dev/hda? /dev/sda? or label
> uname -r udevd --version
> distro
> 
> root        real_root   kernel   initramfs  udev   distro
> /dev/root   /dev/sda3   3.2.9    -          153    slackware
> /dev/root   /dev/sda3   2.6.37   -          165    slackware
> /dev/hda1   /dev/hda1   2.4.37   -          -      slackware
> 
> your entry here...

I have a 3.0.17 kernel with gentoo and tuxonice patches. udevd version
171 and openrc 0.10.2 (with the default init scripts). df shows both
rootfs (not /dev/root, just rootfs) mounted on /
and /dev/mapper/vg-root mounted on /. This is on gentoo with a
genkernel generated initramfs.

Jack

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