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df command not working

We have installed fileutils-3.16-9 but the df -k command gives tons of error messages like:
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
df: module: No such file or directory
df: kerneld,: No such file or directory
df: filesystems.: No such file or directory
df: clean,: No such file or directory

etc.
Since we use df -k to monitor the file system's capacity, we really need this command to work properly.
Please help.

We are running Linux 2.0.33 on a Sparc 10
Thanks.

kiffney

Perhaps you don't have an /etc/mtab file? Or it has been deleted by mistake? I think df reads this to find out what's mounted. Check to see if it's there. If not, re-create it (man fstab will help). If it is there, and not empty, try running

strace -o df.errors df

and post the output of df.errors. The df.errors file will help you see what system calls are being made and what is going wrong.

molmstead

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I don't have the strace command. Where do I get it?

I do have an /etc/mtab file, and it looks like this:

Finding module dependencies... done
Starting kerneld, version 2.1.85 (pid 38)
Checking filesystems.
/dev/sda5: clean, 845/51200 files, 18004/204624 blocks
/dev/sda7: clean, 4569/197880 files, 84171/790308 blocks
/dev/sda4: clean, 19158/204800 files, 283972/819018 blocks
/dev/sda6: clean, 178/25584 files, 8705/102312 blocks
Parallelizing fsck version 1.10 (24-Apr-97)
Checking all file systems.
----------------------------------
----------------------------------
[/sbin/fsck.ext2] fsck.ext2 -a /dev/sda5
[/sbin/fsck.ext2] fsck.ext2 -a /dev/sda7
[/sbin/fsck.ext2] fsck.ext2 -a /dev/sda4
[/sbin/fsck.ext2] fsck.ext2 -a /dev/sda6
----------------------------------
Mounting local filesystems.
Turning on user and group quotas for local filesystems
Setting clock (utc): Tue Dec 28 21:08:28 UTC 1999
Enabling swap space.
Initializing random number generator...

Thanks for any help you can provide.

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jyu_88

I think he's Molmstead is giving the right file which has wrong contents for some reason. Since 'df' is looking at /etc/mtab and get really surprised by the contents, as resulted in the error he posted.

molmstead

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You sir have greatly helped us.
I read the mount man page, and created a symbolic link from the /proc/mounts to the mtab file and now the df -k command works perfectly.
Thanks for your wonderful help.
;-)MO