Richard Melville wrote: > > I've noticed that this was recommended way back on LFS 3.3 but now seems > to > > have been dropped. As all the distros appear to have caught up with LFS > by > > having this symlink what are the current views here on creating it? I've > > noticed some discussion on the dev list in January but it seems to have > > been inconclusive. > > The last I looked at it, doing the symlink make the output of the mount > command break some scripts. For instance, instead of having > > /dev/sda12 on / type ext3 (rw) > > it would give > > /dev/root / ext3 rw,... 0 0 > > /dev/root does not provide any useful information, especially since > /dev/root does not exist in /dev. /dev/sda12 does tell me which > partition is mounted as root. > > -- Bruce > > Thanks Bruce, I'll check that out.
Richard
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