On 03/05/15 11:28, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 03/05/15 08:16, Rabin Yasharzadehe wrote: >> Package: coreutils >> Version: 8.23-4 >> Severity: important >> >> Dear Maintainer, >> >>> What led up to the situation? >> After the upgrade to Debian 8 from Debain 7, >> the output of the df command have changed. >> >> This change broke oue backup scripts which was looking for >> the mapper string in the df command output. >> >>> Old out put format was >> >> # df -Ph / >> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on >> /dev/mapper/vg1-root 14G 3.3G 9.8G 25% / >> >>> New (bad) output >> >> # df -Ph / >> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on >> /dev/dm-0 6.7G 3.6G 2.8G 57% / > > Yes coreutils no shows the canonicalized name: > http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=v8.14-116-g1e18d84 > > It seems a bit coupled to be searching for "mapper". > Why use that as a selector? Are you backing up devices > rather than files? Is there asnother way to select devices?
Note if /dev/dm-0 is presented in /proc/mounts then this is all that is provided by the system to df, which then has no opportunity to use higher level names. Padraig -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org