Description of problem: df lists two different filesystem devices under the same name Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): [~]rpm -qf `which df` coreutils-5.96-1.2 How reproducible: df Steps to Reproduce: I'm not sure! I've been running this setup for a while, with identical fstabs in both /dev/hda5 and /dev/hda3. I switch back and forth using grub. Sometimes I reinstall my /dev/hda3 fedora installation. Actual results: [~]df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 30470176 19814084 9083332 69% / tmpfs 257896 0 257896 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda3 30470176 19814084 9083332 69% /mnt/UNION /dev/hda5 118000672 109384416 8616256 93% /mnt/BASALM /dev/hda1 28439328 22076988 4894404 82% /mnt/MAIN [~]df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 30470176 21361656 7535760 74% / tmpfs 257896 0 257896 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda3 30470176 21361656 7535760 74% /mnt/UNION /dev/hda5 118000672 109384416 8616256 93% /mnt/BASALM /dev/hda1 28439328 20642680 6328712 77% /mnt/MAIN [~]df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 30470176 21413416 7484000 75% / tmpfs 257896 0 257896 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda3 30470176 21413416 7484000 75% /mnt/UNION /dev/hda5 118000672 109384416 8616256 93% /mnt/BASALM /dev/hda1 28439328 20642680 6328712 77% /mnt/MAIN [~]df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 30470176 24427224 4470192 85% / tmpfs 257896 0 257896 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda3 30470176 24427224 4470192 85% /mnt/UNION /dev/hda5 118000672 109384416 8616256 93% /mnt/BASALM /dev/hda1 28439328 17584932 9386460 66% /mnt/MAIN [~]cat /etc/fstab LABEL=/1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 LABEL=SWAP-hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0 #/dev/hda3 /mnt/UNION ext3 defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/BASALM vfat defaults 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/MAIN ext3 defaults 0 0 [~]umount /mnt/UNION [~]df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 30470176 24427492 4469924 85% / tmpfs 257896 0 257896 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda5 118000672 109384416 8616256 93% /mnt/BASALM /dev/hda1 28439328 17584932 9386460 66% /mnt/MAIN I edited my fstab and rebooted to no avail: [~]cat /etc/fstab LABEL=/1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 LABEL=SWAP-hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0 #/dev/hda3 /mnt/UNION ext3 defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/BASALM vfat defaults 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/MAIN ext3 defaults 0 0 [~]df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 30470176 24426136 4471280 85% / tmpfs 257896 0 257896 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda5 118000672 109384416 8616256 93% /mnt/BASALM /dev/hda1 28439328 17585084 9386308 66% /mnt/MAIN Expected results: The first filesystem should be named /dev/hda3 Additional info:
The following seems to show that df is not at fault. I have no clue what is happening here. [~]mount /dev/hda1 on / type ext3 (rw) . . . /dev/hda1 on /mnt/lfs type ext2 (rw)
looks like hda1 has the label '/1'. AFAICS, there's no bug here, you asked it to be mounted at / and /mnt/MAIN, and it did.