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made the mtab link command an 'ln -sf' since mount may create /etc/mtab when mounting proc

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Gerard Beekmans 2002-09-13 04:24:47 +00:00
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<listitem><para>September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Create mtab
link: Made the <userinput>ln</userinput> command an <userinput>ln
-sf</userinput> so the existing <filename>/etc/mtab</filename> file, created
by the <userinput>mount</userinput> command, will be removed before
re-creating it as a symlink.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Sh-utils: Added
the sh-utils-hostname patch that supresses the build of the hostname
program. This is done because the hostname program from the net-tools

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<filename>/etc/mtab</filename> to <filename>/proc/mounts</filename>.
This is done using the following command:</para>
<para><screen><userinput>ln -s /proc/mounts /etc/mtab</userinput></screen></para>
<para><screen><userinput>ln -sf /proc/mounts /etc/mtab</userinput></screen></para>
<para>Creating this symlink avoids problems which can occur if
<filename class="directory">/</filename> is mounted read-only and the