205704 – cp /proc/mounts is invalid

Bug 205704 - cp /proc/mounts is invalid

Summary: cp /proc/mounts is invalid

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	[OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Other documents (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Docs Team

URL:	http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/grub-err...
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Reported:	2008-01-13 20:13 UTC by Toby Murray
Modified:	2008-01-13 20:34 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Toby Murray 2008-01-13 20:13:28 UTC

In code listing 12.2:
# cp /proc/mounts /etc/mtab

This gives you a zero byte file in /etc/mtab since /proc/mounts is not a regular file. This should read:
cat /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab
or as is found in the installation handbook:
grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 Łukasz Damentko (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-01-13 20:34:58 UTC

Done. Thanks for reporting.