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- From: mph@plasma.apana.org.au (Martin Peter Howell)
- Subject: Re: 0.99 directory bug?
- References: <1992Dec17.180033.29648@walter.cray.com>
- Organization: APANA site, Melbourne, Australia
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 23:54:51 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.235451.203@plasma.apana.org.au>
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- roberts@cray.com (Michael Roberts {67000 CF/DEV}) writes:
-
- >My recent upgrade to 0.99 from 0.98.5 has yielded a bug involving
- >floppy disks. When I mount a floppy disk with a minix filesystem
- >on it and I change directories to the floppy disk, I get errors
- >using "pwd" and "du". "pwd" gives the error:
-
- > pwd: No such file or directory
-
- >but it works fine when my current working directory is on a hard
- >drive partition. "du" works fine on floppy directories, but if I'm
- >in a floppy directory and "du" a hard disk directory, like "du /",
- >I get the error:
-
- > du: cannot get current directory: No such file or directory
-
- I have found that trying to mount an extended or minix fs on a
- directory that is not in the root (eg. /usr/mountpoint) always gives
- these errors. Whereas mounting to a directory in the root is no problem.
- I noticed this a while ago (0.98.[12]) but haven't tried it since
- so I don't know if it has been fixed.
-
- -Martin.
- mph@plasma.apana.org.au
-