Re: What to do about /etc/mtab

2001-01-06 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == s Lichtmaier writes: >> > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp>mount -o loop foo 1 > Why dont we just >> patch mount to use /var/run/mtab? > I dont know about any >> other program which modifies it. >> >> because /var is not always on the same partition as / > /etc/mt

What to do about /etc/mtab

2001-01-06 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
> > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp>mount -o loop foo 1 > > Why don't we just patch mount to use /var/run/mtab? > > I don't know about any other program which modifies it. > > because /var is not always on the same partition as / /etc/mtab shouldn't exist, all the information should be handled by the k