[svlug] Security question: read-only drive

[Michael Higashi]

On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Drew Bertola wrote:

> /etc/mtab doesn't seem to work at all when symlinked from /etc.  I tried.

Depends on where you try to symlink it to. From man mount:

   When the proc filesystem is mounted (say at /proc), the files 
   /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts have very similar contents. The former 
   has somewhat more information, such as the mount options used, but 
   is not necessarily up-to-date (cf. the -n option below). It is
   possible to replace /etc/mtab by a symbolic link to /proc/mounts, 
   but some information is lost that way, and in particular working 
   with the loop device will be less convenient. Also, pathnames
   containing spaces are handled correctly by /etc/mtab but not (yet) 
   by /proc/mounts.


Mike

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