Hey,

you're exactly right... that box (i'm not even sure
what distro it's running... mandrake?) is also using
that weird naming scheme (i actually had to check mtab
to see what the root really was).  that seems kind of
lame to do it by label instead of device file, but i
guess that's the way it goes.

thanks for the info,
Cameron Matheson

--- Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com> wrote:
> Not the details of the bug.  What I was wondering
> was about
> /etc/fstab.  The translation between device and
> mounted file system
> is done, I think, by using the fstab file.  Recent
> practice in
> linux (at least recent to me) is to use some
> symbolic tokens
> in fstab.  I see one of my laptop fedora entries is:
> 
>   LABEL=/    /    ext3   defaults    1 1
> 
> From that, I've no idea what disk device contains
> "/".
> Probably amanda doesn't either.
> 
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