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Re: replacement for old /etc/mtab that lists only real filesystems like ext4 or fat



On 2016-02-11, Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Jan Gregor composed on 2016-02-11 22:25 (UTC+0100):
>
>>   I used /etc/mtab to list mounted filesystems with their mount options.
>> Unfortunatelly /etc/mtab no longer exists in debian jessie, it is just
>> symlink to /proc/mounts that lists 31 filesystems and I want to see just 2
>> :-)  classic filesystems like ext4, fat, btrfs only.
>
> alias Mnt='mount | grep -v cgroup | grep -v tmpfs | grep -v ^sys | grep -v
> "on /dev" | grep -v "on /proc" | grep -v "on /sys" | grep -v "on /var" | sort'

I don't anything about bash scripting, but can't you do something with
less redundancy like:

alias MNT='mount | grep -vE 'tmpfs|sysfs|devpts|etc|etc'?

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