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From: Olaf Dietsche <olaf.dietsche@t-online.de>
To: mru@users.sourceforge.net (Måns Rullgård)
Cc: miquels@cistron-office.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg),
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: About /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 13:16:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87el5v6xvj.fsf@goat.bogus.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yw1xwujn2t0v.fsf@manganonaujakasit.e.kth.se> (mru@users.sourceforge.net's message of "26 Feb 2003 12:14:24 +0100")

mru@users.sourceforge.net (Måns Rullgård) writes:

> Olaf Dietsche <olaf.dietsche@t-online.de> writes:
>
>> I thought, this is what /var is for. So, /var/run, /var/lib/misc or
>> /var/etc might be more appropriate?
>
> What if /var is mounted separately?

I didn't think of this, even though I have it separately on my
machine.

>> OTOH, "ln -s /proc/mounts /etc/mtab" works just fine here.
>
> The only problem I have with that is that option 'user' is lost.  This
> means that any user can mount /cdrom, but only root can unmount it.

The 'user' option is in /etc/fstab, so this is not a problem. I can
mount _and_ umount /cdrom as a simple user.

Regards, Olaf.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-02-26 12:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-19 11:21 About /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts DervishD
2003-02-26  9:18 ` Kasper Dupont
2003-02-26 10:26   ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2003-02-26 11:00     ` Olaf Dietsche
2003-02-26 11:14       ` Måns Rullgård
2003-02-26 11:44         ` Kasper Dupont
2003-02-26 12:16         ` Olaf Dietsche [this message]
2003-02-26 12:34           ` Måns Rullgård
2003-02-26 13:39             ` Olaf Dietsche
2003-02-26 13:54               ` Måns Rullgård
2003-02-26 14:23                 ` Olaf Dietsche
2003-02-27  4:14   ` Miles Bader
2003-02-27  6:40     ` Kasper Dupont
2003-02-27  7:03       ` Joseph Wenninger
2003-02-27  8:28         ` Kasper Dupont
2003-03-05  0:03           ` Jamie Lokier
2003-02-27  7:06       ` Miles Bader
2003-02-27  8:25         ` Kasper Dupont
2003-02-27  8:42           ` Miles Bader
2003-02-27  9:21             ` jw schultz
2003-02-27  9:49               ` Miles Bader
2003-02-27 23:33                 ` Kasper Dupont
2003-02-27 12:48               ` Denis Vlasenko
2003-02-27 23:28                 ` Kasper Dupont
2003-02-28  6:15                   ` Denis Vlasenko
2003-03-02 13:04               ` DervishD
2003-03-02 14:16                 ` Kasper Dupont
2003-03-03  1:04                   ` jw schultz
2003-03-03 12:22                     ` Kasper Dupont
2003-03-04  2:02                       ` jw schultz
2003-03-05 12:57                         ` Kasper Dupont
2003-03-06  1:18                           ` jw schultz
2003-03-06 23:30                             ` Kasper Dupont
2003-03-04 11:16                       ` DervishD
2003-03-04 11:08                   ` DervishD
2003-02-27  9:46             ` Kasper Dupont
2003-02-27  9:58               ` Miles Bader
2003-02-27 12:26                 ` Gabriel Paubert
2003-02-27  7:07       ` Joseph Wenninger
2003-02-27  7:08       ` Dominik Kubla
2003-02-27  8:12         ` Kasper Dupont
2003-02-27  9:11           ` Dominik Kubla
2003-02-27 16:00             ` Horst von Brand
2003-02-27 16:31               ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-02-27 16:40               ` Dominik Kubla
2003-02-27 19:47                 ` Kasper Dupont
2003-02-27 22:13                   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-02-27 22:31                     ` Kasper Dupont
2003-02-27 23:54                       ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2003-02-28  1:37                         ` Miles Bader
2003-03-02 12:53     ` DervishD
2003-03-02 14:00       ` Kasper Dupont
2003-03-04 11:02         ` DervishD
2003-03-04 12:09           ` Kasper Dupont
2003-03-04 14:53             ` DervishD
2003-03-02 12:51   ` DervishD

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