From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S8d27-0004DA-QU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:41:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2DBF1E0E09; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:41:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f181.google.com (mail-we0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F204BE0D87 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:40:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by werm13 with SMTP id m13so5056764wer.40 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:40:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=yXgZjJ5QR/fO/aW3NSj5CSHhNYyrskHB3zQuYZHL64c=; b=nDWT4Gxd9GmGheHyikDINz8c8OXSjOfmMo32ZJmiUBJeAIUCl5rHB1tlXu8Fb8lHKo ClKu+H2LjGh1zhEwRg54WcCv1VTT3/fr5peZPqp+KoW7QFP7EUP9T/yyfAdE0P7IAoDU PQuleGYibBtQNJmRJeu0MtWeb+0/RNZFOMM8u1H2RfH6Am7X2RUSxCzkG7wUZ0OzfU6I 1XtW6huZWfGi0oWcou0iULjXwl0KSgv+UkupRhrXbDUVZoaKVVK/JMHndpXBbjMLQbwb lhgVSVvU5A4LHbxOUdVq50qYgS12hl4Ouvm35wGCb0ZfNNxcFWezexxvvC2L8BWmWPKH qwtw== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.180.83.42 with SMTP id n10mr1153901wiy.9.1331926816253; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:40:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.8.68 with HTTP; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:40:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:40:16 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: [gentoo-user] To mount or not to Mount proc, that is the question From: Mark Knecht To: Gentoo User Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 5f16a6b3-cd75-47e5-a88c-380ccb6673fe X-Archives-Hash: 63690e74d20dcf8a44766f9389cae68e I've been trying to debug a problem where one laptop's networking, as controlled by wicd, seems to randomly go offline once in awhile. In the process of reviewing 5 machines I ran across an inconsistency across a bunch of my machines, new and old. It seems some of them mount proc in fstab while others do not. Some of these machines have been around for a few years not mounting proc and except for the laptop's networking issues there really haven't been any problems. Looking at the Gentoo amd64 install guide here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=8 it appears that the recommendation is to mount proc. [QUOTE] /dev/sda1 /boot ext2 defaults,noatime 1 2 /dev/sda2 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/sda3 / ext3 noatime 0 1 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 [QUOTE] What would the issues be with proc not mounted? For instance, this machine doesn't mount proc in fstab but still has proc: laptop1 ~ # cat /etc/fstab /dev/sdb1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2 /dev/sdb4 / ext3 noatime 0 1 /dev/sdb2 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro 0 0 shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 laptop1 ~ # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md127 : active (auto-read-only) raid1 sdb3[1] sda3[0] 343758245 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU] unused devices: laptop1 ~ # Thanks, Mark