Re: ibook troubles after dist-upgrade
On Sat, 7 Jun 2003, P Oscar Boykin wrote:
> 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?
Because /var is not necessarily mounted when the first non-root filesystem is
mounted. /etc is always there.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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