Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | Olaf Dietsche <> | Subject | Re: About /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts | Date | Wed, 26 Feb 2003 13:16:00 +0100 |
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mru@users.sourceforge.net (Måns Rullgård) writes:
> Olaf Dietsche <olaf.dietsche@t-online.de> writes: > >> I thought, this is what /var is for. So, /var/run, /var/lib/misc or >> /var/etc might be more appropriate? > > What if /var is mounted separately?
I didn't think of this, even though I have it separately on my machine.
>> OTOH, "ln -s /proc/mounts /etc/mtab" works just fine here. > > The only problem I have with that is that option 'user' is lost. This > means that any user can mount /cdrom, but only root can unmount it.
The 'user' option is in /etc/fstab, so this is not a problem. I can mount _and_ umount /cdrom as a simple user.
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