/etc/mnttab is zero length - I have done a silly thing

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Originally Posted by Perderabo

As for your problem, my best guess is that you umounted /etc/mnttab, an operation which ideally would have been disallowed. But I guess it has to be allowed to fix /etc/mnttab when it breaks. Smilie

I think you've got it, it's in the output from df so my poorly filtered script would have grabbed it and issued a 'umount /etc/mnttab'. Will add that little gem to my bag of tricks

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