#!@PREFIX@/sbin/runscript # Copyright (c) 2007-2008 Roy Marples # All rights reserved. Released under the 2-clause BSD license. description="Update /etc/mtab to match what the kernel knows about" depend() { need root keyword -prefix } start() { # /etc/mtab could be a symlink to /proc/mounts if [ ! -w /etc/mtab -a -L /etc/mtab ]; then eeinfo "Skipping mtab update (non writeable symlink)" return 0 fi ebegin "Updating /etc/mtab" if ! echo 2>/dev/null >/etc/mtab; then ewend 1 "/etc/mtab is not updateable" return 0 fi # 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~~ eend 0 }