Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: About /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts | From | (Måns Rullgård) | Date | 26 Feb 2003 12:14:24 +0100 |
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Olaf Dietsche <olaf.dietsche@t-online.de> writes:
> >>A simpler solution, that does not require changes to the kernel > >>would be to just move mtab to a more apropriate location. My > >>suggestion would be to change it from /etc/mtab to /mtab.d/mtab. > >>Then you could mount a tmpfs filesystem on /mtab.d. Or by making > >>/mtab.d a symlink, you can get the mtab file whereever you want, > >>including /etc. > > > > /dev/shm ? Supposed to be there on many systems anyway. Fix > > 'mount' and 'umount' so that if they see /etc/mtab is a symlink, > > they follow it and create the temp files etc in the destination > > directory of the link instead of in /etc. Then > > ln -sf /dev/shm/mtab /etc/mtab et voila > > I thought, this is what /var is for. So, /var/run, /var/lib/misc or > /var/etc might be more appropriate?
What if /var is mounted separately?
> OTOH, "ln -s /proc/mounts /etc/mtab" works just fine here.
The only problem I have with that is that option 'user' is lost. This means that any user can mount /cdrom, but only root can unmount it.
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