[ale] /etc/mtab

[Dennis Ruzeski]

So if /var was unmounted how would you write to it?



On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> why is mtab in /etc as a file and not as just a symlink to someplace better
> like /var/<something>/mtab?
>
> Since it gets written to on any mount it seems to be more like "/var data"
> than a configuration file
>
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