Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 02 Mar 2003 15:00:17 +0100 | From | Kasper Dupont <> | Subject | Re: About /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts |
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DervishD wrote: > > Hi Miles :) > > Miles Bader dixit: > > /var is clearly the right place for this; if /var isn't mounted > > initially, I'd suggest that mount should simply not update any file > > at that point, and the init-script that mounts /var can be > > responsible from propagating information from /proc/mounts to > > /var/whatever. > > In an embedded system I built a time ago, /etc/mtab was first a > symlink to /proc/mounts, but after a while I made it a symlink to > /var/run/mtab. It worked OK, AFAIK.
Did mount actually update the mtab file? The version of mount on my system would not.
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