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[ale] /etc/mtab
- Subject: [ale] /etc/mtab
- From: ale at pcartwright.com (Paul Cartwright)
- Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 16:00:27 -0400
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <[email protected]>
On Wed May 5 2010, Jim Kinney 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
whats the difference between mtab & fstab ? I've never heard of mtab and there
is no man page!
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