Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 09:45:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 09:45:19 -0500 Received: from [66.70.28.20] ([66.70.28.20]:783 "EHLO maggie.piensasolutions.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 09:45:19 -0500 Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 15:53:59 +0100 From: DervishD To: Kasper Dupont Cc: Miles Bader , Linux-kernel Subject: Re: About /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts Message-ID: <20030304145359.GB967@DervishD> References: <20030219112111.GD130@DervishD> <3E5C8682.F5929A04@daimi.au.dk> <20030302125315.GH45@DervishD> <3E620E71.B74C2191@daimi.au.dk> <20030304110213.GA42@DervishD> <3E649774.9DB3868D@daimi.au.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <3E649774.9DB3868D@daimi.au.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: Pleyades User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1135 Lines: 25 Hi Kasper :) Kasper Dupont dixit: > > > > but after a while I made it a symlink to > > > > /var/run/mtab. It worked OK, AFAIK. > > > Did mount actually update the mtab file? The version of mount on > > > my system would not. > > Of course not, it is just a symlink to a proc file > But you just said it was a symlink to /var/run/mtab. Excuse me, I thought that you was talking about the /proc/mounts symlink, and not /var/run/mtab. When the symlink was /var/run/mtab I don't remeber if it was updated, but it should, because all worked OK, I mean, all filesystems were correctly mounted. But anyway the info provided by me is not reliable: we used the 'mount' command from 'asmutils' and I don't know how it managed /etc/mtab. All that happened more than two years ago :(((, sorry. AFAIK, at some point of the research, the mount command from busybox was used, too. Ra?l - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/