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- .th MOUNT VIII 10/31/73
- .sh NAME
- mount \*- mount file system
- .sh SYNOPSIS
- .bd /etc/mount
- special file [
- .bd \*-r
- ]
- .sh DESCRIPTION
- .it Mount
- announces to the system that a removable file system
- is present on the device corresponding to special
- file
- .it special
- (which must refer to a disk or possibly DECtape).
- The
- .it file
- must exist already; it
- becomes the name of the root of the newly mounted
- file system.
- .s3
- .it Mount
- maintains a table of mounted devices;
- if invoked without an argument it prints the table.
- .s3
- The optional last argument indicates that the file
- is to be mounted read-only.
- Physically write-protected and magnetic tape file
- systems must be mounted in this way
- or errors will occur when access times are updated,
- whether or not any explicit write is attempted.
- .sh "SEE ALSO"
- mount (II),
- mtab (V),
- umount (VIII)
- .sh BUGS
- Mounting file systems full of garbage will crash the system.
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