On Thursday December 06, 2001 11:06 am, you wrote: > I could be wrong on this one, but it is my understanding that mtab is > generated from fstab as part of the shutdown process. If you read the > two files carefully, you will see that they are basically the same. Nope, mtab is a list of what's currently mounted, whereas fstab is a list of default mount points. Some people symlink /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts, though I've read that it can be a bad idea because /proc/mounts doesn't have as much info as mtab.
