On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:
> Philip Tellis wrote:
>
> > True, it is not possible to mount / readonly. When drives are mounted,
> > mount writes to /etc/mtab There are also a lot of other status files that
> > are written to regularly.
>
> mount -n skips updating /etc/mtab
True, but you don't want to do that. mount checks with mtab to see which
partitions are mounted. It also checks this file to figure out which
systems should be unmounted when shutting down the system.
Philip
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