How can I retrieve the mount count for an ext3 volume?
Thomas Charron
twaffle at gmail.com
Tue Oct 6 15:58:30 EDT 2009
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Thomas Charron <twaffle at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It really suprised me that I couldn't find this information in the
>> /proc fs anywhere.
> What do you think this is, MS Windows? :) We've got a perfectly
> servicable tool (dumpe2fs) that will tell us the information. Why do
> we need a kernel API for it? :)
Just seems like something they'd have under thar.
> Aside: On non-Linux systems, /proc is usually *just* process info.
> Linux extended it to contain miscellaneous system info, e.g., CPU and
> memory. Then later networking info. Then disk info. Then ways to
> *change* that stuff. Then a web browser. Er, maybe not that last.
> But /proc on Linux definitely suffers from creeping featurism. :)
I always call it /proc, but I'd really expect it to be in /sys.
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-- Thomas
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