If the actual /etc/mtab is gone, that's a bad sign. But then it might be as simple
as doing an fsck on the filesystem.
Or,
check the mount man page:
"it is possible to replace /etc/mtab by a symbolic link to /proc/mounts..."
cheers.
~af
On 5/23/06, Trevor TeC Christian <
trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Trevor "TeC" Christian wrote:
> Good day:
>
> I just used yum to upgrade my kernel on my FC3 box and on shutdown and
> reboot, began getting errors indicating and input/output error with
> /etc/mtab.
>
> When entering the directory this file from ls looks like a link that's
> lost it's link - if you get what I'm saying... I flashes and is points
> to nothing. The file size, owner and permission sections of the ls -l
> output all appear as question marks.
>
> What happened? How should this be fixed?
>
> Thanx
Looking back at root mail, it seems this error may have been showing up
from early Sunday morning - after a power failure, shutdown and reboot -
during a cron attempt to update the slocate database.
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