>Can I rely on the mtab information? I recognized that e.g. submountd will >add permanent entries even when the devices are not present... >What about udev, devfsd, usbmount? Don't use /etc/mtab. Don't use it for anything if you can help it; it was important technology in its day, but we can now go to the horse's mouth -- the kernel -- for that information. /proc/mounts will tell you what is really mounted. As you mentioned in another posting, this isn't really the information you want either -- you want to know if the SCSI disk is in use. Being the device backing a conventional filesystem image is only one way a SCSI disk might be in use. -- Bryan Henderson IBM Almaden Research Center San Jose CA Filesystems - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
