Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strange new behavior from the mount command

2015-04-20 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 3:21 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/19/2015 05:45 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 6:18 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: As a quick-and-dirty way of testing your idea I moved /etc/fstab out of the way. I was surprised to learn that mount

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strange new behavior from the mount command

2015-04-20 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 4:01 PM, Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 3:21 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/19/2015 05:45 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 6:18 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: As a quick-and-dirty way of testing your idea I moved

[gentoo-user] Re: Strange new behavior from the mount command

2015-04-20 Thread walt
On 04/19/2015 05:45 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 6:18 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: As a quick-and-dirty way of testing your idea I moved /etc/fstab out of the way. I was surprised to learn that mount doesn't care about fstab, and doesn't even bother to look for it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strange new behavior from the mount command

2015-04-19 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Sunday, April 19, 2015 3:18:38 PM walt wrote: As a quick-and-dirty way of testing your idea I moved /etc/fstab out of the way. I was surprised to learn that mount doesn't care about fstab, and doesn't even bother to look for it (when invoked with no arguments). You'll have to play

[gentoo-user] Re: Strange new behavior from the mount command

2015-04-19 Thread walt
On 04/18/2015 05:33 PM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: On Saturday, April 18, 2015 3:59:15 PM walt wrote: execve(/bin/mount, [mount], [/* 61 vars */]) = 0 That number 61 on the 'bad' machine is 48, though, and I don't know where that odd-looking string of characters is generated or what it means.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strange new behavior from the mount command

2015-04-19 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 6:18 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/18/2015 05:33 PM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: On Saturday, April 18, 2015 3:59:15 PM walt wrote: execve(/bin/mount, [mount], [/* 61 vars */]) = 0 That number 61 on the 'bad' machine is 48, though, and I don't know where that

[gentoo-user] Re: Strange new behavior from the mount command

2015-04-18 Thread walt
On 04/18/2015 02:31 PM, Paul Colquhoun wrote: On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 11:48:12 walt wrote: I have two similar but not identical ~amd64 machines, and *one* of the two machines is doing something new and strange when I type mount with no arguments. The bad machine prints the list of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strange new behavior from the mount command

2015-04-18 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Saturday, April 18, 2015 3:59:15 PM walt wrote: execve(/bin/mount, [mount], [/* 61 vars */]) = 0 That number 61 on the 'bad' machine is 48, though, and I don't know where that odd-looking string of characters is generated or what it means. To me it looks like a comment in a file of 'c'