[ale] /etc/mtab

[Michael Trausch]

Yes, I actually wonder myself why the file exists at all. Seems silly on
Linux systems; I would think that it should just be a symlink to
/proc/mounts in any case, because it is really the kernel's job to track
mounts and show state.

It has always bugged me that its there. It bugs me even more than on a
system that only boots ro, with init=/bin/bash, it reads /etc/mtab which is
almost always inaccurate at that point.

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On May 5, 2010 4:10 PM, "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

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:
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> So if /var was unmo...
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