On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, David Marshall wrote:
> Peter Pilgrim wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I need some information about linux distributions and where
> > they have the system mount table.
> >
> > For SuSE Linux this file is ``/etc/mtab''
> >
> > I need to know what it is for Red Hat Linux, Debian, Slackware, TurboLinux
> > and Linux Mandrake. THis is for a Java Linux portable JNI project
>
> For Redhat it's "/etc/fstab"
Ummm, no, that's where you specify what you want mounted, not what is
currently mounted. /etc/mtab should exist on all recent Linux distributions,
because it is created by mount itself. From the mount(8) man page:
The programs mount and umount maintain a list of currently mounted file
systems in the file /etc/mtab. If no arguments are given to mount, this
list is printed. When the proc filesystem is mounted (say at /proc), the
files /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts have very similar contents.
So, I'd say that both /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts are reasonably
cross-distribution ways to look for the currently mounted filesystems.
Scott
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