On Monday, September 16, 2013 03:44:42 PM Dan Egli wrote: > *Hey pluggers, I'm in the middle of an argument with another Linux guy, so > I'm hoping that you all can settle the argument once and for all. He and I > were debating the criticality of various files in /etc to the immediate > operation of a computer. Most we agree on, but he seems to be indicating > that /etc/mtab is of higher import to the system than I think it is. Yes, > it maintains a list of all file systems presently mounted. But if the file > was ever altered other than by the kernel or the mount/umount commands, > what would be the effect?*
Back in the old old Mandrake 8 and 9 days when I was still very new to Linux, I used to sometimes need to edit /etc/mtab to convince the system that we had indeed unmounted a CD so then we could then mount another one. Mounting and unmounting media was a different game back then. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
