Re: [Nolug] authoritative knowledge of how a device is mounted

On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Scott Harney wrote:

> mtab is autogenerated, by the way.
>
> You can also cat /proc/mounts though this would be Linux
> specific. And you'll note it looks just like /etc/mtab.

/etc/mtab contains a little more info than /proc/mounts (like mount
options). From what i understand, mtab is maintained by mount/umount in
userland, /proc/mounts is the kernel's idea of what is mounted.

I'm pretty sure you can delete /etc/mtab and mount will still show what
you want, so yea mount with no options is prolly your best bet.

-ray

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Systems Engineer                    Southeastern Louisiana University
IBM Certified Specialist  	      AIX Administration, AIX Support
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