Changeset 85e7f3c for chapter06/createfiles.xml

Timestamp:

05/14/2013 09:25:54 PM (11 years ago)

Author:

Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@…>

Branches:

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Children:

28c4c1e

Parents:

32ce725c

Message:

Change /etc/mtab to be a symbolic link to /proc/self/mounts.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@10274 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

File:

• chapter06/createfiles.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter06/createfiles.xml

@@ -47 +47 @@
 ln -sv bash /bin/sh</userinput></screen>
 
-  <para>A proper Linux system maintains a list of the mounted file systems in
-  the file <filename>/etc/mtab</filename>.  Normally, this file would be
-  created when we mount a new file system. Since we will not be mounting any
-  file systems inside our chroot environment, create an empty file for
-  utilities that expect the presence of <filename>/etc/mtab</filename>:</para>
+  <para>Historically, Linux maintains a list of the mounted file systems in the
+  file <filename>/etc/mtab</filename>.  Modern kernels maintain this list
+  internally and exposes it to the user via the <filename
+  class="directory">/proc</filename> filesystem.  To satisfy utilities that
+  expect the presence of <filename>/etc/mtab</filename>, create the following
+  symbolic link:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>touch /etc/mtab</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>ln -sv /proc/self/mounts /etc/mtab</userinput></screen>
 
   <para>In order for user <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> to be