[ale] /etc/mtab

[Paul Cartwright]

On Wed May 5 2010, Jim Kinney wrote:
> why is mtab in /etc as a file and not as just a symlink to someplace better
> like /var/<something>/mtab?
>
> Since it gets written to on any mount it seems to be more like "/var data"
> than a configuration file

whats the difference between mtab & fstab ? I've never heard of mtab and there 
is no man page!

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