Re: /sbin/mount and /proc/mounts difference

[Martin Dalecki]

Urban Widmark wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
> 
> > As you can see the notail-option of reiserfs isn't listed on /proc/mounts,
> > but it is on "mount".
> >
> > Does this have any particular reason?
> 
> mount writes everything to /etc/mtab and displays that when asked.

Not quite...

~/tmp# strings /bin/mount | grep mounts
Note that one does not really mount a device, one mounts
/proc/mounts
~/tmp#