openrc/init.d/mtab.in
William Hubbs 318e873481 strongly encourage Linux users to not make /etc/mtab a flat file
The OpenRC team does not currently know of any modern linux tools that
require /etc/mtab to be a flat file, so this puts users on notice that
the mtab service will be removed in the future.
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#!@SBINDIR@/openrc-run
# Copyright (c) 2007-2015 The OpenRC Authors.
# See the Authors file at the top-level directory of this distribution and
# https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/blob/master/AUTHORS
#
# This file is part of OpenRC. It is subject to the license terms in
# the LICENSE file found in the top-level directory of this
# distribution and at https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/blob/master/LICENSE
# This file may not be copied, modified, propagated, or distributed
# except according to the terms contained in the LICENSE file.
description="Update /etc/mtab to match what the kernel knows about"
depend()
{
after clock
before localmount
need root
keyword -prefix -systemd-nspawn
}
start()
{
local rc=0
ebegin "Updating /etc/mtab"
if ! checkpath -W /etc; then
rc=1
elif ! yesno ${mtab_is_file:-no}; then
[ ! -L /etc/mtab ] && [ -f /etc/mtab ] &&
ewarn "Removing /etc/mtab file"
einfo "Creating mtab symbolic link"
ln -snf /proc/self/mounts /etc/mtab
else
ewarn "The ${RC_SVCNAME} service will be removed in the future."
ewarn "Please change the mtab_is_file setting to no and run"
ewarn "# rc-service mtab restart"
ewarn "to create the mtab symbolic link."
[ -L /etc/mtab ] && ewarn "Removing /etc/mtab symbolic link"
rm -f /etc/mtab
einfo "Creating mtab file"
# With / as tmpfs we cannot umount -at tmpfs in localmount as that
# makes / readonly and dismounts all tmpfs even if in use which is
# not good. Luckily, umount uses /etc/mtab instead of /proc/mounts
# which allows this hack to work.
grep -v "^[! ]* / tmpfs " /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab
# Remove stale backups
rm -f /etc/mtab~ /etc/mtab~~
fi
eend $rc "/etc is not writable; unable to create /etc/mtab"
return 0
}