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bug#53209: Update on 53209 "stat shows wrong, non-existing device number


From: Joachim Wagner
Subject: bug#53209: Update on 53209 "stat shows wrong, non-existing device number"
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 16:25:16 +0000

Further reading suggests this a not a bug but a feature and only some 
filesystems choose (major<<8)+minor of the primary device specified when 
mounting the filesystem as the filesystem's device number.

A sentence in the man page explaining this would be helpful.







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