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Date:      Sat, 1 Nov 2003 13:46:37 +1030
From:      Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
To:        Brian Denny <brian@briandenny.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: linprocfs: Operation not supported
Message-ID:  <200311011346.37063.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
In-Reply-To: <20031101030451.GA643@briandenny.net>
References:  <20031101020708.GA426@briandenny.net> <200311011258.22802.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> <20031101030451.GA643@briandenny.net>

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On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 13:34, Brian Denny wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 12:58:22PM +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> > On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 12:37, Brian Denny wrote:
> > > I put the following in my /etc/fstab:
> > >   linproc  /compat/linux/proc   linprocfs   rw,noauto    0 0
> >
> > I know this is what the man page says; but I find my /etc/fstab actua=
lly
> > uses the line:
> >     linprocfs  /compat/linux/proc   linprocfs   rw,noauto    0 0
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, but that doesn't seem to affect the outcome.
>
>
> I should mentioned that I just upgraded from 4.5 to 4.8.  The upgrade
> seems to have gone smoothly.  I never tried mounting linprocfs before,
> so I have no idea whether the recent system upgrade has anything to do
> with my current difficulties.

Hmm, yes I suspect the identifier in the 'device' column is arbitrary.

Some other thoughts (possibly equally useless ;-) :
  Do you have the executable /sbin/mount_linprocfs ?
  Does the mount point /compat/linux/proc actually exist ?

Malcolm Kay



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