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From: Jason <unleet@qwest.net>
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: transferring linux system to another hard drive
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 17:25:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <01120617253400.14487@lightstar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E22560E82A1153458801ACCFDBB7AC8C119CC0@COCMAIL2.coc.ca>

On Thursday December 06, 2001 11:06 am, you wrote:
> I could be wrong on this one, but it is my understanding that mtab is
> generated from fstab as part of the shutdown process.  If you read the
> two files carefully, you will see that they are basically the same.

Nope, mtab is a list of what's currently mounted, whereas fstab is a list of 
default mount points.

Some people symlink /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts, though I've read that it can 
be a bad idea because /proc/mounts doesn't have as much info as mtab.


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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Dawes, Stephen
 ` Jason [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
 Dawes, Stephen
 Dawes, Stephen
 ` Victor Tsaran
 Dawes, Stephen
 transfering " Thomas Ward
 ` transferring " Steve Dawes
   ` Adam Myrow
     ` Angelo Sonnesso
       ` Angelo Sonnesso
   ` Victor Tsaran
     ` Gregory Nowak
   ` Steve Holmes

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