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restriction that the user must be the owner of the special file. This may be useful
e.g. for /dev/fd if a login script makes the console user owner of this device.
The group option is similar, with the restriction that the user must be member of
the group of the special file.
The programs mount and umount maintain a list of currently mounted file systems in
the file /etc/mtab. If no arguments are given to mount, this list is printed.
When the proc filesystem is mounted (say at /proc), the files /etc/mtab and
/proc/mounts have very similar contents. The former has somewhat more information,
such as the mount options used, but is not necessarily up-to-date (cf. the -n
option below). It is possible to replace /etc/mtab by a symbolic link to
/proc/mounts, and especially when you have very large numbers of mounts things will
be much faster with that symlink, but some information is lost that way, and in
particular working with the loop device will be less convenient, and using the
"user" option will fail.