F15: ugly behavior of "df"

Karel Zak kzak at redhat.com
Thu Jul 21 20:45:28 UTC 2011


On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:51:59AM -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> Though I wonder, since /etc/mtab is just a symlink. is the mount
> command we ship still able to write to /etc/mtab if a local admin
> decided to revert and make /etc/mtab a normal file again.  Would our
> mount command then update that file as per the legacy way? 

 Yes.

> because
> really that is exactly what you want to do on your system.   If our
> mount command will still attempt to write to /etc/mtab once its a real
> file again, maybe things will work for you as expected.
 
 No. systemd is not compatible with /etc/mtab

    Karel

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