On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 03:19:47PM -0800, Alex McCool wrote > Could someone explain the diff between fstab and mtab?
In a nutshell: fstab is created and maintained by the superuser, and describes/provides defaults for filesystems to be mounted. mtab is created and maintained by the system, and describes filesystems which are currently mounted. Fstab usually includes all your "regular" partitions that are mounted automatically, plus (on Linux) entries for /proc, swap and /dev/ptys. It can also contain any other mounts that may be useful (/cdrom, /fd0) with the "noauto" option (so that they won'tbe mounted automatically), so that you can say, e.g., # mount /cdrom to pick up the mount options from /etc/fstab, instead of # mount -t iso9660 -o ro,nodev,nosuid /dev/hdb /cdrom You should never edit /etc/mtab yourself. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything." - Bill Gates in Denmark
