Re: fstab vs. mtab

2000-02-27 Thread David Teague
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Alex McCool wrote: > Could someone explain the diff between fstab and mtab? Certainly: /etc/fstab is the file that tells the system what to mount at boot whereas /etc/mtab is the current list of files mounted at any given time. This is incomplete: The kernel has to know wh

Re: fstab vs. mtab

2000-02-26 Thread Alex McCool
Thanks for the quick info on fstab and mtab

Re: fstab vs. mtab

2000-02-26 Thread John Pearson
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,

Re: fstab vs. mtab

2000-02-25 Thread William T Wilson
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Alex McCool wrote: > Could someone explain the diff between fstab and mtab? fstab is used by the mount command to know what filesystems go on what mount points, mostly for mounting them at startup. mtab is used to keep track of what filesystems are mounted, right now.

fstab vs. mtab

2000-02-25 Thread Alex McCool
Could someone explain the diff between fstab and mtab?