[6613] in RedHat Linux List
Re: /etc/rmtab: what is it?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Curtis)
Thu Nov 28 22:39:20 1996
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 22:38:06 -0500
From: ray@fred.net (Ray Curtis)
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Borg writes:
> Howdy,
>
> I just found that strange file in /etc:
>
> [root@borg /etc]# pico rmtab
>
> (contains nothing)
>
> [root@borg /etc]# rpm -fq /etc/rmtab
> file /etc/rmtab is not owned by any package
> [root@borg /etc]# ls -l rmtab
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Nov 2 23:50 rmtab
> [root@borg /etc]#
>
> So, what is it?
From what I gather that file rmtab stores the data of mounted
filesystems.
If you do a showmount -a it reads that file for mounted filesystems.
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