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From: Pat LaVarre <p.lavarre@ieee.org>
Subject: Re: Remounting File Systems
Date: 21 Nov 2003 12:40:16 -0700
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> > > > what the mount flags are 
> > > > for a currently mounted file system?
> 
> > with a little luck, you can get this
> > information from /etc/mtab
> 
> With less luck, ... some ... info... from via /proc/mounts.
> 
> /etc/mtab tells you about past invocations of mount/unmount programs, 
> whereas /proc/mounts tells you about what mounts presently exist ...

/proc/mounts isn't going away with the change over to sysfs?

Yours in breathtaking ignorance, Pat LaVarre