MOUNT
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NAME
mount, umount - mount and dismount file system
SYNOPSIS
/etc/mount
[ special name [
-r
] ]
/etc/umount
special
DESCRIPTION
Mount
announces to the system that a removable file system
is present on the device
special.
The file
name
must exist already; it
must be a directory (unless the root of the
mounted file system is not a directory).
It becomes the name of the newly mounted root.
The optional last argument indicates that the file system
is to be mounted read-only.
Umount
announces to the system that the removable file system previously
mounted on device
special
is to be removed.
These commands
maintain a table of mounted devices.
If invoked without an argument,
mount
prints the table.
Physically write-protected and magnetic tape file
systems must be mounted read-only
or errors will occur when access times are updated,
whether or not any explicit write is attempted.
FILES
/etc/mtab: mount table
SEE ALSO
mount(2),
mtab(5)
BUGS
Mounting file systems full of garbage will crash the system.
Mounting a root directory on a non-directory
makes some apparently good pathnames invalid.
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