fstab = filesystem table<br>mtab = mount table.<br><br>fstab is used to initially mount things which then populates mtab.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Paul Cartwright <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ale@pcartwright.com">ale@pcartwright.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Wed May 5 2010, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> why is mtab in /etc as a file and not as just a symlink to someplace better<br>
> like /var/<something>/mtab?<br>
><br>
> Since it gets written to on any mount it seems to be more like "/var data"<br>
> than a configuration file<br>
<br>
</div>whats the difference between mtab & fstab ? I've never heard of mtab and there<br>
is no man page!<br>
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