Messages in this thread | | | From | Dominik Kubla <> | Subject | Re: About /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts | Date | Thu, 27 Feb 2003 08:08:18 +0100 |
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On Thursday 27 February 2003 07:40, Kasper Dupont wrote: > Miles Bader wrote: > > Kasper Dupont <kasperd@daimi.au.dk> writes:
> > > My suggestion would be to change it from /etc/mtab to /mtab.d/mtab. > > > > Please, no. don't pollute the root (_especially_ with little one-use > > directories like that). > > Unfortunately it is the best solution I can come up with. > > > /var is clearly the right place for this; > > Is it?
I would recommend to replace /etc/mtab with a pseudo-FS like Sun did for /etc/mnttab:
# uname -rs SunOS 5.8 # mount -p ... mnttab - /etc/mnttab mntfs - no dev=39c0000 ...
Regards, Dominik -- "What this country needs is a short, victorious war to stem the tide of revolution." (V.K. von Plehve, Russian Minister of Interior on the eve of the Russo-Japanese war.)
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