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Comment 15 for bug 13131

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:28:14 +0100
From: Stephan Niemz <email address hidden>
To: Andreas Barth <email address hidden>
Cc: Justin Pryzby <email address hidden>,
 <email address hidden>, Tyler MacDonald <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#296201: mount: unprivileged user can mount partition without updating mtab

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There is quite a simple solution to this problem:

  ln -sf ../proc/mounts mtab

    Maybe this could be added to postinst or similar. Of course this
only works when procfs is mounted to /proc, but is anyone really not
doing this nowadays?

The other advantage is that "mount" and "df" show the correct file
systems even when "/" is mounted read-only, e. g. in single user mode.

Cheers,

    - Stephan.

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