On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 02:06:20PM +0200, Thomas Winischhofer wrote: > /etc/mtab is no configuration file. This file is used by the mount > command to store the currently mounted devices. It is written to > everytime you mount/unmount a device. Just out of curiosity, why isn't /etc/mtab in the var directory instead? I would think /var/mtab or some other directory in /var would make more sense. Any unix history on this? -- boykin@pobox.com http://pobox.com/~boykin jabber: johnynek@jabber.org fingerprint=159A FA02 DF12 E72F B68F 5B2D C368 3BCA 36D7 CF28 don't send word docs: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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