[plug] Partition sizes on a new install

[Mike Holland]

On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, SweenyTod wrote:

> >running are there. Dont you think /etc/mtab  ought to be in /var ?
> 
> At the risk of sounding dumb, I have no idea what mtab is.  :)  I just had 

Thats one of the things that suck about the english language - they
dropped the 2nd person singular pronouns (thee,thou,thy etc). I meant
you-plural, ie the list.
   mtab is the odd-man-out in /etc . It is a list of currently mounted
partitions. Why this is kept in a plain file as well as the kernel, I have
no idea.

> a look at my home machine (SSH rules) and it's got some cryptic file system 
> stuff in it.

You have a cryptographic filesystem? 

> The Linux Standards group is busy doing all this stuff right now I 

:-)  Problem is, Linux is Unix and cant just do its own thing completely.
Lots of historical baggage, but not as much as Windoze at least, because
we have the source.

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Mike Holland  <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>
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