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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/mtab
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:49:33
Message-Id: 20120205214701.7ecf9d0c@khamul.example.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] /etc/mtab by Grant
1 On Sun, 5 Feb 2012 10:23:56 -0800
2 Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > I was just going over the Baselayout and OpenRC Migration Guide:
5 >
6 > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml
7 >
8 > and I'm not sure how to make sure my /etc/mtab is set up according to
9 > the instructions:
10 >
11 > "Previously, the initial rootfs entry was removed from /etc/mtab, and
12 > only the real root / entry was present. The duplicate rootfs item was
13 > actually added back during shutdown. In OpenRC, both entries must be
14 > present for full support of initramfs and tmpfs-on-root. This also
15 > means that less writing is required during shutdown."
16 >
17 > My systems have different /etc/mtab files but here is one:
18 >
19 > rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
20 > /dev/root / ext3 rw,noatime,errors=continue,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
21 > proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
22 > rc-svcdir /lib/rc/init.d tmpfs
23 > rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=1024k,mode=755 0 0
24 > sysfs /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
25 > udev /dev tmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,size=10240k,mode=755 0 0
26 > devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
27 > shm /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
28 > usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw,noexec,nosuid,devmode=0664,devgid=85 0 0
29 >
30 > Should I change anything?
31
32 I don't see a problem. The portion you quoted says exactly what mtab
33 should contain, and your mtab does contain it.
34
35 Your mtab looks correct to me. In what way do you believe that it is
36 not?
37
38 --
39 Alan McKinnnon
40 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

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