Re: About /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts

From: Denis Vlasenko (vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua)
Date: Fri Feb 28 2003 - 01:15:07 EST

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On 28 February 2003 01:28, Kasper Dupont wrote:
> Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Nov 12 2001 root ->
> > /.share/root
>
> Wouldn't it be best to keep /root on the root filesystem?
> It is rarely large, and if you need to log in as root to
> fix some mounting problem, I guess you want your home
> directory.

No. My rootfs is RO. My home dir shouldn't be.

> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Nov 12 2001 mnt ->
> > /.local/mnt
>
> What is the point in making mnt a local directory? All
> it contains are some directories to serve as mountpoints.
> I guess you are going to mount something on top of every
> subdirectory in mnt anyway.

Yes.

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