/etc readonly

[Carl Friis-Hansen]

On Thu, August 6, 2009 10:48, Siggy Brentrup wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 10:30 +0200, Luca Ferrari wrote:
>> Hi all,
>
>> a trivial question: when the system loads the / in read-only, how
>> can the system keep updated the /etc/mtab file?
>
> I doesn't, there's still the mtab in kernel space that's
> kept up to date.

The file /etc/mtab *is* writable by root.

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