Mtab shows 0 bytes

Both Caja and Thunar show mtab with a file size of 0.

Why is that?

/etc/mtab is a link to /proc/self/mounts. Take a look in that directory and you’ll find lots of files at 0 bytes but have data. I’m no expert but those /proc “files” are really real-time data and always show that way.

Thanks for the interesting info.