>> >Some people make /etc/mtab a symlink to /proc/mounts.
>> >
>> Correction. Some distributions make it. It leads to all sorts of weird 
>> problems, too.
>
>Yes, it is a hack, but it gets you far enough. The major problem to my
>knowledge is the fact that some filesystems don't include the entire
>options string in the /proc/mounts.
>
That's because certain options apply to mount(8) only, not the filesystem.
At least that's what I think.
Loop mounts also are a issue. With a proper mtab, it would contain:
  /home/my/file.iso /mnt ...
With a symlink to proc/mounts this unfortunately turns into
  /dev/loop0 /mnt ...


Jan Engelhardt
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