I've ran into this before on another distro. But for the life of me I cant remember the fix..

The root of the problem is I suppose that when things are umounted they are not removed from the mtab... so after awhile you end up with a mtab thats stuffed full of mount entries. I tried to "band-aid" this by ' echo "" >/etc/mtab ' at startup followed by ' ./etc/init.d/mtab.sh start ' after all filesystems where setup...

This sort of fixes the problem except its still alittle out of sync.... for instance my root is /dev/sda1. But this entry is not present in mtab... so ofcoarse the system reports /dev/sda1 as unmounted.

All and all this is a small problem for me since this is just a portable system that I use away from home..... but still an anonyance.

Any ideas?... hrmm.. maybe just ` ln -s /proc/mounts /etc/mtab ` ?

Thanks,
-Justin
One Mynds Eye