Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> writes: > See my reply to David. All those mounts are to the root of the > filesystems on the other machines, and that then accounted for the fact > I was seeing root:root for the already mounted systems. A point that if > I ever knew it, I've since forgotten since the other entries are now > many years old. Relatively short term memory isn't so good at 86 yo.
I think that's one of those things in Unix-likes that isn't really covered anywhere. At least I don't remember seeing it documented but it does follow from what mounting is. Anyways, I can only hope I remember things half as well as you do when I'm your age.