>> >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 ...
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