Re: /etc/mtab
Thorsten Kukuk <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.lsb.implementation |
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| Organization | SuSE Linux AG, Nuernberg, Germany |
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On Wed, Feb 26, Wichmann, Mats D wrote: > My confusion is that none of the distros I've > looked at use such a symlink; /etc/mtab is a > plain file and doesn't show exactly the same > contents as "cat /proc/self/mounts". You can make /etc/mtab a symlink to /proc/mounts, but /proc/mounts only contains the data the kernel has. /etc/mtab contains all options, which mount knows and uses. So if you make a symlink, you will loose some functionality. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ [email protected] SuSE Linux AG Deutschherrnstr. 15-19 D-90429 Nuernberg -------------------------------------------------------------------- Key fingerprint = A368 676B 5E1B 3E46 CFCE 2D97 F8FD 4E23 56C6 FB4B
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