John Wendel wrote:
Isn't it possible to make /etc/mtab a link to /proc/mounts? I seem to
remember that some distos do this.
The two are not equivalent. /proc/mounts doesn't show some of the
options that were passed to the mount command. For example, on my
system /etc/mtab shows that /usr/opt has been mounted on /opt with
the -bind option:
/dev/hda5 /usr ext2 ro,noatime 0 0
/usr/opt /opt none rw,bind 0 0
/proc/mounts doesn't tell the whole story:
/dev/hda5 /usr ext2 ro,noatime 0 0
/dev/hda5 /opt ext2 ro,noatime 0 0
FWIW, there are also cases where /proc/mounts includes information
not present in /etc/mtab.
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