mtab= Mount TABle
fstab= File System TABle

On Saturday 01 March 2003 08:12 am, Paul Kaplan wrote:
> Nope, just /etc/mtab.
> I know what fstab is used for.  What is mtab used for?
> Paul
>
> On Saturday 01 March 2003 17:26, et wrote:
> > On Friday 28 February 2003 04:17 pm, Paul Kaplan wrote:
> > > On Friday 28 February 2003 15:25, et wrote:
> > > > On Friday 28 February 2003 10:09 am, Dennis Myers wrote:
> > > > > On Friday 28 February 2003 01:45 am, Paul Kaplan wrote:
> > > > > > Anyone know what /net and /misc are?  They automount under m9,
> > > > > > are always busy and can't be unmounted.  As a result I can't do a
> > > > > > clean shutdown. How can I remidy?
> > > > > > TIA
> > > > > > Paul
> > > > >
> > > > > Paul, can you cd to these directories and do a "ls" in console
> > > > > mode? Might show what is in them, cause my system does not have
> > > > > either directory.
> > > >
> > > > if I remember correctly (that might be a first) these are mount
> > > > points created by some wild program (like linneighborhood or gnomba
> > > > for the /net) and have a "hard" mount point in the script that
> > > > creates them, maybe posting fstab and mtab might help.
> > >
> > > Dennis,
> > > ls /misc and ls /net return nothing
> > >
> > > et,
> > > From /etc/mtab:
> > > automount(pid1561) /misc autofs rw,fd=5,pgrp=1561,minproto=2,maxproto=4
> > > 0 0 automount(pid1574) /net autofs
> > > rw,fd=5,pgrp=1574,minproto=2,maxproto=4 0 0
> > >
> > > I use linneigborhood to work to access a LAN
> >
> > nothing in fstab? re /net, /misc???
> >
> > > Derek,
> > > What configuration file am I looking for w/ autofs?


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