id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
3204	chap 6.6 enhancements with better /etc/mtab	Gilles Espinasse	lfs-book@…	"Chap 6.6 instruction is to create mtab using
{{{
touch /etc/mtab
}}}

This cause one coreutils-8.19 test to fail (df/total-unprocessed) and some other to be skipped, sometime for unclear reason when main partition is not XFS like 

{{{
skip-seek-past-dev: skipped test: failed to determine size of -
SKIP: dd/skip-seek-past-dev
or
slink: skipped test: '.' is on an XFS file system
SKIP: du/slink

}}}
.
A better and still simple way to create /etc/mtab is using

{{{
grep ' / ' /proc/mounts >/etc/mtab
}}}
You may consider too adding /proc, /sys, dev/pts, /dev/shm to mtab too. I haven't tested without."	task	closed	normal	7.3	Book	SVN	normal	wontfix