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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: Remounting File Systems
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 19:36:30 -0800
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On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:40:16PM -0700, Pat LaVarre wrote:
> > > > > 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?

In 2.7, possibly.  For 2.6, no.

greg k-h