<p>Yes, I actually wonder myself why the file exists at all. Seems silly on Linux systems; I would think that it should just be a symlink to /proc/mounts in any case, because it is really the kernel's job to track mounts and show state.</p>
<p>It has always bugged me that its there. It bugs me even more than on a system that only boots ro, with init=/bin/bash, it reads /etc/mtab which is almost always inaccurate at that point.</p>
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<p><blockquote type="cite">On May 5, 2010 4:10 PM, "Jim Kinney" <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>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.<p><font color="#500050"><br><br>On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Dennis Ruzeski <<a href="mailto:denniruz@gmail.com">denniruz@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>
> So if /var was unmo...</font></p>-- <br>-- <br><p><font color="#500050">James P. Kinney III<br>Actively in pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness <br>Doing pretty well on all 3 p...</font></p><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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