The Thursday 2005-03-17 at 14:29 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Thursday 17 March 2005 10:19, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Randall R Schulz <rschulz@sonic.net> [03-17-05 13:10]:
/etc/fstab is by no means dynamic.
fstab *is* dynamic as also is mtab.
Maybe on your system. Definitely not on mine.
It changes as hot-pluggable devices are added/subtracted and mtab changes as devices are mounted and/or umounted.
No. It does not.
Children, children... X-) You are both right. The file /etc/mtab is dynamic in the sense that the kernel mount thing changes it on the fly. In that same sense, /etc/fstab is static. However, SuSE wrote some scripts on the hotplug/automount system that does write to the 'fstab' file when you plug certain devices - so it can be thought as dynamic as well. Some people have that behaviour, some doesn't. It has also changed in the last few SuSE versions. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson