On Mit, 2014-05-14 at 21:27 +0530, Saket Sinha wrote: [...] > I wanted to isolate the problem hence did not give the full context. > Actually I have written a file-system utility which mounts my > filesystem on a specific path and update it in /etc/fstab. When I > umount it, I delete the path from the /etc/fstab. I don't know if you want to do that - /etc/mtab is (historically?) used to record actually mounted filesystems. (At least) in the Linux world, there is /proc/mounts where the kernel tells you exactly that. Bernd -- Bernd Petrovitsch Email : bernd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx LUGA : http://www.luga.at _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies