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Re: mount & umount as ordinary user -- PROBLEM FOUND



At 2003-04-02T19:20:07Z, Lukas Ruf <ruf@rawip.org> writes:

> On sid, /etc/mtab is a symbolic link to /proc/mounts!

It's not on my machine:

kirk@pooh:~$ ls -la /etc/mtab
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          346 Mar 25 14:08 /etc/mtab

> Is there any way to remove the symbolic link and remount all the mount
> points without rebooting the box?

Could you try something like this (locally, first, to see if there are
problems):

    cd /etc
    mv mtab mtab.bak
    cp /proc/mounts /etc/mtab


-- 
Kirk Strauser
In Googlis non est, ergo non est.

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