On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Adrian Cox wrote:
> > Gabriel Paubert wrote: > > Because mount stats /etc/mtab and does not touch it if it finds that it is > > a symlink. But this has still problem, I just can't remember which ones. I > > know that I thought it would be great and had to go back to the standard > > /etc/mtab. > > See http://www.xss.co.at/sysinfo/mounts.html Thanks for the pointer. Now that I see it, I remember that the major problem I had on the diskless machines was that /proc/mounts did not have enough information, especially for the root mount point when it is an NFS mount. The root mount point always appears as /dev/root BTW. Thanks, Gabriel.