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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] config file '/etc/mtab' needs updating
From:       Dr Rainer Woitok <rainer.woitok () gmail ! com>
Date:       2023-04-11 11:03:57
Message-ID: 25653.16028.512736.926115 () woitok ! gmail ! com
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Peter,

On Tuesday, 2023-04-11 11:19:31 +0100, you wrote:

> On Tuesday, 11 April 2023 06:44:03 BST thelma@sys-concept.com wrote:
> > After update I get:
> > * IMPORTANT: config file '/etc/mtab' needs updating.
> > ...

> /etc/mtab should be a symlink to /proc/self/mounts, so it ought to be kept up 
> to date by the kernel as required.

If I remember correctly,  recently the symlink target was subtly changed
from "/proc/self/mounts" to "../proc/self/mounts",  thus unconditionally
referring to a target on the same volume.

That's probably the reason for the warning thelma got.

Sincerely,
  Rainer

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