Messages in this thread | | | From | (Miquel van Smoorenburg) | Subject | Re: About /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts | Date | Wed, 26 Feb 2003 10:26:07 +0000 (UTC) |
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In article <3E5C8682.F5929A04@daimi.au.dk>, Kasper Dupont <kasperd@daimi.au.dk> wrote: >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've been thinking of doing this for Debian.
Mike. -- Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job -- Douglas Adams.
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