On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 22:48, Bret Hughes wrote: > On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 22:21, Hal Burgiss wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 09:56:47PM -0500, Bret Hughes wrote: > > > > > > The only way I have even found the tie is using cfdisk. Is there > > > another way to find out what the device is for a given mount point? > > > > > > > df, Brett? At least for whats mounted when the script runs. > > > > -- > > Hal Burgiss > I guess either of these will work but only if label is the same as the > mount point. That is indeed the case right now but I am not sure that > will always be the case and I hate making assumptions. I dug around in > proc a bit and man'ed my $*$& off but I can't find a simple command that > will return the label from a partition. I can set it with tune2fs > according to the man page but not list it. cfdisk -P [ast] gives me > allsorts of cool stuff but not the lablel. I gues it moght be in the > raw dump of the partition table but I thought surely there is something > I am missing. I may get pissed and start digging around in the mount > code since it can read fstab with only labels so I know there is a > system call that has to accomplish this somehow. You know I am out of > control if I go digging in c code :) > > Seems crazy to me. > > Thanks guys.
Figures, I did just find e2label that will do what I want, sort of. I will be able to parse mount and get the device and then ask for the label with e2label device. Still can't buzz fstab and get the devices for the labels though. Huh. still looking. Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
