On 11/28/2013 09:48 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: > The fact that /etc/mtab is pointing to a wrongly formatted file by > default, these days, rather than being used to store user-specific mount > information, seems to be getting well-used as a reason for dropping > useful information:
Well, there are many reasons to go away from mount-maintained mtab. E.g. Kzak in some short words: "Yeah, mtab is evil." [1] In the end, mtab as symlink to /proc/self/mounts is the right thing, as it presents the view of the kernel ... which is always the correct one. 'df' cares about the file system [2], and not too much about the device behind it. That's the domain of mounting tools which is indeed OS specific. [1] http://karelzak.blogspot.de/2011_04_01_archive.html [2] man 1 df: "df - report file system disk space usage" Have a nice day, Berny
