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Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: config file '/etc/mtab' needs updating
From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc () gmail ! com>
Date: 2023-04-11 12:33:03
Message-ID: u13k1v$ml$2 () ciao ! gmane ! io
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On 11/04/2023 13:38, Dale wrote:
> I saw this the other day as well. I just skipped it. Still, it made me
> wonder, given what it does and what should update the file, why should
> emerge touch that file?
Because the file belongs to the sys-apps/baselayout package.
> It's like fstab. I doubt I'd ever let any
> config update touch fstab. I don't think I'd ever try to touch mtab
> myself.
fstab is a config file. mtab is not ;-) It doesn't even belong in /etc,
but it's kept there for backwards compatibility.
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