Re: Get rid of /etc/mtab ?
On 28 Jun 2002, Hilko Bengen wrote:
> Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net> writes:
>
> > Previously Oliver Kurth wrote:
> > > Then link /proc/mounts as long as /var isn't mounted, and change that when it
> > > is. On boot time, the information in /proc/mounts should be enough.
> >
> > On boot time /proc doesn't exist either. Only /etc, /lib, /sbin and
> > /bin are guaranteed to exist.
>
> What about /tmp?
Please think about a good reason to move it first. R/o / isn't. I have
set up systems like that. These are mostly special cases, embedded
systems or routers, where you can live with the reduced functionality of
/etc/mtab linked to /proc/mounts. So if you want it, you can have it. I
don't see any problem here.
Furthermore you *can* edit /etc/mtab to configure mount. It will display
different things if you do so. So it *is* a configuration file and
belongs into /etc.
regards manolo
### Manfred Waßmann ###
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