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vfstab contains everything that <b>can be</b> mounted, and mnttab contains what <b>is actually</b> mounted.
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vfstab contains everything that can be mounted, and mnttab contains what is actually mounted.

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still confused<br />
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woolmilkproc,<br />
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can you please elaborate it?
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still confused

woolmilkproc,

can you please elaborate it?

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Hi Experts,<br />
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Can you please explain me the major and minor differences between /etc/vfstab and /etc/mnttab in Solaris?<br />
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Why there is need of 2 files to do the same task if there is no such difference?<br />
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Thanks and regards<br />
Ashwin
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Hi Experts,

Can you please explain me the major and minor differences between /etc/vfstab and /etc/mnttab in Solaris?

Why there is need of 2 files to do the same task if there is no such difference?

Thanks and regards
Ashwin

Difference between /etc/vfstab and /etc/mnttab

Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 at Bell Labs. Today, it is a modern OS with many commercial flavors and licensees, including FreeBSD, Hewlett-Packard’s UX, IBM AIX and Apple Mac OS-X. Apart from its command-line interface, most UNIX variations support the standardized X Window System for GUIs, with the exception of the Mac OS, which uses a proprietary system.