i did have to make "edquota" use /etc/fstab instead
of /etc/mtab, since quota info is absent from /proc/mounts.
this isn't ideal.
On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 12:36:32AM -0000, david@summersoft.fay.ar.us wrote:
>
> >What would be good also would be a mount/umount suite using /proc/mounts instead of /etc/mtab... :-)
> >
> >Oh well, I'll probably just do that someday...
>
>
> Yes, please! This is what I had in mind when I originally wrote
> /proc/mounts two years ago. I'm kind of suprized to only now see this
> thought, though! My intention was to do away (eventually) with /etc/mtab
> and the "problem" of trying to write to it when the machine boots the partition
> in read-only mode. The kernel already knows all that stuff so why not
> let mount/umount use the /proc/mount instead.
>
> Actually I verified that my modified version of mount/umount would work with
> just /proc/mount and it worked fine. I tried to locate the authors of
> mount/umount but was unable to find anybody at the time. Maybe now is
> the time.
>
> Thanks!
> - David Summers
>
>