[ale] /etc/mtab

[Jim Kinney]

If /var is not mounted, LOTS of stuff is not working so I'm in runlevel 1 at
that point :-)

I'd even settle for a spot in /tmp.

But not /etc. mtab is not used to configure anything. It is the report of a
state. So the /proc/mounts (linked to /proc/self/mounts) is the only place
it should exist from my thinking.

Must be an _old_ carry over from way before /proc days.

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Dennis Ruzeski <denniruz at gmail.com> wrote:

> So if /var was unmounted how would you write to it?
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> 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
> >
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