Somewhere in the 2.4.x kernel series, /proc/mounts was changed to display a

"rootfs" entry as well as the traditional "/dev/root" entry.  This caused
applets such as mount and df to display two root filesystem entries....

This teaches the relevant utilities to ignore the "rootfs" entry.
 -Erik

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/util-linux/mount.c b/util-linux/mount.c
index d02005600..49d086c97 100644
--- a/util-linux/mount.c
+++ b/util-linux/mount.c
@@ -334,7 +334,9 @@ static void show_mounts(char *onlytype)
                 while ((m = getmntent(mountTable)) != 0) {
                         char *blockDevice = m->mnt_fsname;
 
-                        if (strcmp(blockDevice, "/dev/root") == 0) {
+                        if (strcmp(blockDevice, "rootfs") == 0) {
+                                continue;
+                        } else if (strcmp(blockDevice, "/dev/root") == 0) {
                                 blockDevice = find_real_root_device_name(blockDevice);
                         }
                         if (!onlytype || (strcmp(m->mnt_type, onlytype) == 0)) {