Quoting Samuel Thibault (2013-07-04 22:55:51) > Justus Winter, le Thu 04 Jul 2013 18:45:35 +0200, a écrit : > > Note that without a > > mtab or /proc/mounts file the umount utility is not very useful, > > Mmm? In theory it should easily be able to unmount anything by just > providing the mount point, shouldn't it?
Yes, that's the half of umount that would work. But umount also allows one to specify the device instead of the mount point and I do not see how to properly implement this without someone (like the mtab translator) providing the mapping from devices to mount points and vice versa. Justus
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