Messages in this thread | | | From | Olaf Dietsche <> | Subject | Re: About /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts | Date | Wed, 26 Feb 2003 12:00:43 +0100 |
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miquels@cistron-office.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes:
> In article <3E5C8682.F5929A04@daimi.au.dk>, > Kasper Dupont <kasperd@daimi.au.dk> wrote: >>A simpler solution, that does not require changes to the kernel >>would be to just move mtab to a more apropriate location. My >>suggestion would be to change it from /etc/mtab to /mtab.d/mtab. >>Then you could mount a tmpfs filesystem on /mtab.d. Or by making >>/mtab.d a symlink, you can get the mtab file whereever you want, >>including /etc. > > /dev/shm ? Supposed to be there on many systems anyway. Fix > 'mount' and 'umount' so that if they see /etc/mtab is a symlink, > they follow it and create the temp files etc in the destination > directory of the link instead of in /etc. Then > ln -sf /dev/shm/mtab /etc/mtab et voila
I thought, this is what /var is for. So, /var/run, /var/lib/misc or /var/etc might be more appropriate?
OTOH, "ln -s /proc/mounts /etc/mtab" works just fine here.
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