mnttab(4)						     Kernel Interfaces Manual							 mnttab(4)

NAME

       mnttab - mounted file system table

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

       resides	in  directory and contains a table of devices mounted by the command (see mount(1M)).  The file contains a line of information for
       each mounted filesystem which is structurally identical to the contents of described by fstab(4).

       There are a number of lines of the form:

	      special_file_name   dir	type   opts   freq   passno   mount_time

       consisting of entries similar to:

       is accessed by programs that use (see getmntent(3X)).  It should never be manually edited or overwritten.

       mount_time contains the time the file system was mounted using Its value is the number of seconds since	the  Epoch  (00:00:00  Coordinated
       Universal Time, January 1, 1970 (see time(2).

       The  file  is a pseudo-file whose contents are dynamically created based on the kernel's private in-core mount table.  The file will always
       reflect the latest file system and operations.  rewrites the file if it is found to be deleted or corrupted. (see syncer(1M)).

WARNINGS

       The table is provided only as a means for programs to return information about mounted file systems.

       should never be edited, either with a text editor or with the delmntent(3X) and addmntent(3X) API's.  The kernel will ignore all writes	to
       so these API's will return success even though they do not actually modify

AUTHOR

       was developed by the University of California, Berkeley, Sun Microsystems, Inc., and HP.

FILES

SEE ALSO

       mount(1M), getmntent(3X), fstab(4).

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