If /var is not mounted, LOTS of stuff is not working so I'm in runlevel 1 at that point :-)<br><br>I'd even settle for a spot in /tmp. <br><br>But not /etc. mtab is not used to configure anything. It is the report of a state. So the /proc/mounts (linked to /proc/self/mounts) is the only place it should exist from my thinking.<br>
<br>Must be an _old_ carry over from way before /proc days.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Dennis Ruzeski <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:denniruz@gmail.com">denniruz@gmail.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;">So if /var was unmounted how would you write to it?<br>
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On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Jim Kinney <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>> 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>
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> Since it gets written to on any mount it seems to be more like "/var data"<br>
> than a configuration file<br>
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