Description of Problem: The problem is that if a 'tmpfs' file system will be mounted following suggestions from /usr/src/linux-2.4/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt, i.e. 'mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /some/where', then the first field shown by /proc/mounts will be not "none" and this file system will be printed twice by the first and third invocations of awk. Here is a corrected function which, BTW, is calling awk only once: halt_get_remaining() { awk '$2 ~ /^\/$|^\/proc|^\/dev/{next} $3 == "tmpfs" {print $2 ; next} /(^#|loopfs|autofs|devfs|^none|^\/dev\/root)/ {next} {print $2}' /proc/mounts } and here is an alternative implemented only in shell halt_get_remaining() { local mpnt fs type rest all while read mpnt fs type rest ; do case "$fs" in /|/proc*|/dev*) continue ;; esac if [ "$type" = tmpfs ] ; then echo $fs continue fi all="$mpnt $fs $type" case "$all" in \#*|*loopfs*|*autofs*|*devfs*|*tmpfs*|none*|/dev/root*) continue ;; esac echo $fs done < /proc/mounts } Checks for /dev/root and comment lines are likely superflous, but... Also likely one check for "$all" can be replaced by separate, simpler, checks for "$mpnt" and "$type" but this changes somewhat semantics of the original. The other thing is that if procfs happens to be mounted also in some other place but /proc, which happens, we likely want to print that as well so this should really be $3 == "tmpfs" || $3 == "procfs {print $2 ; next} and a similar obvious change in a shell version.
Er.. '$3 == "tmpfs" || $3 == "proc" {print $2 ; next}' in the above (don't type on-line!) but otherwise like it should be.
Added in 7.03-1.