equivalent of /proc/mounts in AIX 1

[Amandeep Gautam]

I am cross posting this to few forums:

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/...topic?id=963c2b23-c10f-40f1-9545-a4afc72ad1a7

Hello,

I am trying to figure out a source where I look up all the mounted devices. After some reading, I came to know that AIX tries to mount the entries in /etc/filesystems automatically at startup. But does that files contain everything after the system is started?

Basically, I am looking for an equivalent of /proc/mounts file for AIX.

 

[iggsterman]

mount

command will be the equivalent of

cat /proc/mounts

As to the source of mounts beyond /etc/filesystems look at rc.local and any scripts that have been created and are initiated by inittab

 

[Amandeep Gautam]

Thanks for the reply. Will the mount command give me the filesystems mounted by all users? In my use case, we would run our program as a dedicated user and need access to all the mount points created by the actual user of the system.

Also is there a file where mount command in AIX gets its information from, which I can read rather than running the command?

 

[iggsterman]

df and mount will show all mounted systems regardless of who mounted them. Short of writing a C program I am not sure how to extract this information from the kernel memory. What are you looking to get? There are some fs stats under /proc/sys/

 

[Amandeep Gautam]

In linux, mount does not get the mount points mounted by different users. So just wanted to confirm this. I could not do much testing on the AIX box I have due to permissions.

"What are you looking to get? ":
Reading a file would be easier than parsing output of a command, so I asked if there is file that mount command uses to get the info it displays.

 

[unixfreak]

Hi,

Mount in AIX works for all users. I just tried... Same goes for Linux, not sure where you're getting your information from?

Thanks

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