Philip Tellis wrote:
> > 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.
/proc/mounts also contains the same info. Patching mount to use that
instead shouldn't be difficult.
How in the world mount mounts / without /etc/fstab at boot, I still
don't know.
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