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Re: Get rid of /etc/mtab ?



On 26 Jul 2002 12:02:53 +0200, Goswin Brederlow <goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de> said:
>
> Can someone summarise the reasons against
>
> ln -s /proc/mounts /etc/mtab

The information about bind mounts is different (and better) in /etc/mtab.

    # mount --bind /usr/local /mnt
    # grep /mnt /proc/mounts
    /dev/hda4 /mnt ext2 rw 0 0
    # grep /mnt /etc/mtab
    /usr/local /mnt none rw,bind 0 0
    # _

-- 
Roderick Schertler
roderick@argon.org


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