Re: About /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts

From: Kasper Dupont (kasperd@daimi.au.dk)
Date: Tue Mar 04 2003 - 07:09:24 EST

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DervishD wrote:
>
> Hi Kasper :)
>
> Kasper Dupont dixit:
> > > 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

But you just said it was a symlink to /var/run/mtab.
Did /var/run/mtab get updated?

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