Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 2 Mar 2003 13:53:15 +0100 | From | DervishD <> | Subject | Re: About /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts |
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Hi Miles :)
Miles Bader dixit: > /var is clearly the right place for this; if /var isn't mounted > initially, I'd suggest that mount should simply not update any file > at that point, and the init-script that mounts /var can be > responsible from propagating information from /proc/mounts to > /var/whatever.
In an embedded system I built a time ago, /etc/mtab was first a symlink to /proc/mounts, but after a while I made it a symlink to /var/run/mtab. It worked OK, AFAIK.
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