Re: Why are passwords in /etc?
On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 16:50:08 +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
>>Hmm. The "user" mount option doesn't seem to work with /proc/mounts
>>either. Looks like /etc/mtab really belongs in /var.
>
> Has been discussed to death in debian-devel.
OK, I'll be quiet now ;-) and hide my mtab in /tmp which is on tmpfs.
> You can't put it in /var if
> that is a seperate partition (chicken-egg problem). The right solution is
> a /run filesystem (probably in memory, tmpfs/shmfs).
Yes, I didn't think of that possibility.
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