[olug] The continuing saga of ...Re: To re-install or NOT reinstall?
Joe Gulizia
jrguliz at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 12 15:08:19 UTC 2006
Thanks greatly....before I really messed things up.
--- Sean Kelly <smkelly at zombie.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 02:11:29PM -0700, Joe
> Gulizia wrote:
> ...
> > Which has precedence....fstab or mtab?
>
> Don't mess with /etc/mtab. That is a list maintained
> by the
> mount(8)/umount(8) commands of currently mounted
> filesystems. he file you
> want to be working with is /etc/fstab, which lists
> filesystems and where
> tehy should be mounted.
>
> FILES
> /etc/fstab file system table
> /etc/fstab.order for multipath device
> priority
> /etc/mtab table of mounted file systems
> /etc/mtab~ lock file
> /etc/mtab.tmp temporary file
>
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