Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 Mar 2003 12:02:13 +0100 | From | DervishD <> | Subject | Re: About /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts |
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Hi Kasper :)
Kasper Dupont dixit: > > 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. > 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 ;))) I must say that it worked OK but really only ext2 filesystems and a CDROM were mounted, with default options. Don't know if the symlink would have been worked if special options were used. Now that I remember, we only use 'special' options for the CDROM (to allow mounting by normal users) and the devpts (the permissions).
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