Re: [PATCH] Improved version reporting

Henning P. Schmiedehausen (hps@tanstaafl.de)
Wed, 14 Mar 2001 16:36:55 +0000 (UTC)

Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl writes:

>Looking at fdformat to get the util-linux version is perhaps
>not the most reliable way - some people have fdformat from fd-utils or so.
>Using mount --version would be better - I am not aware of any
>other mount distribution.

Bad idea. RedHat has mount and util-linux in different RPMs (at least 6.x).

Regards
Henning

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