From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.eurofresh.com ([207.108.112.1] helo=tcsnpop1.tcsn.uswest.net) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with smtp (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 16C8od-0005oD-00 for ; Thu, 06 Dec 2001 19:24:35 -0500 Received: (qmail 52215 invoked by uid 50); 7 Dec 2001 00:24:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 52209 invoked by uid 0); 7 Dec 2001 00:24:37 -0000 Received: from tcsndslgw4poolb203.tcsn.uswest.net (HELO lightstar) (65.100.96.203) by tcsnpop1.tcsn.uswest.net with SMTP; 7 Dec 2001 00:24:37 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Jason To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: transferring linux system to another hard drive Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 17:25:34 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01120617253400.14487@lightstar> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: 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.