Cloudera interview question

What is the mtab file? How does it differ from fstab?

Interview Answers

Anonymous

18 Sept 2017

mtab lists all currently mounted file systems, and is used by mount and umount. fstab is used to automate mounts at startup.

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27 Jan 2021

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