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        !             5: .\"    @(#)mount.8     6.1 (Berkeley) 4/27/85
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        !             7: .TH MOUNT 8 "April 27, 1985"
        !             8: .UC 4
        !             9: .SH NAME
        !            10: mount, umount \- mount and dismount file system
        !            11: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            12: .B /etc/mount
        !            13: [ special name [
        !            14: .B \-r
        !            15: ] ]
        !            16: .PP
        !            17: .B /etc/mount
        !            18: .B \-a
        !            19: .PP
        !            20: .B /etc/umount
        !            21: special
        !            22: .PP
        !            23: .B /etc/umount
        !            24: .B \-a
        !            25: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            26: .I Mount
        !            27: announces to the system that a removable file system
        !            28: is present on the device
        !            29: .I special.
        !            30: The file
        !            31: .I name
        !            32: must exist already; it
        !            33: must be a directory (unless the root of the
        !            34: mounted file system is not a directory).
        !            35: It becomes the name of the newly mounted root.
        !            36: The optional argument
        !            37: .B \-r
        !            38: indicates that the file system
        !            39: is to be mounted read-only.
        !            40: .PP
        !            41: .I Umount
        !            42: announces to the system that the removable file system previously
        !            43: mounted on device
        !            44: .I special
        !            45: is to be removed.
        !            46: .PP
        !            47: If the
        !            48: .B \-a
        !            49: option is present for either
        !            50: .I mount
        !            51: or
        !            52: .I umount,
        !            53: all of the file systems described in
        !            54: .I /etc/fstab
        !            55: are attempted to be mounted or unmounted.
        !            56: In this case,
        !            57: .I special
        !            58: and
        !            59: .I name
        !            60: are taken from
        !            61: .I /etc/fstab.
        !            62: The
        !            63: .I special
        !            64: file name from
        !            65: .I /etc/fstab
        !            66: is the block special name.
        !            67: .PP
        !            68: These commands
        !            69: maintain a table of mounted devices in
        !            70: .I /etc/mtab.
        !            71: If invoked without an argument,
        !            72: .I mount
        !            73: prints the table.
        !            74: .PP
        !            75: Physically write-protected and magnetic tape file
        !            76: systems must be mounted read-only
        !            77: or errors will occur when access times are updated,
        !            78: whether or not any explicit write is attempted.
        !            79: .SH FILES
        !            80: /etc/mtab      mount table
        !            81: .br
        !            82: /etc/fstab     file system table
        !            83: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !            84: mount(2),
        !            85: mtab(5), fstab(5)
        !            86: .SH BUGS
        !            87: Mounting file systems full of garbage will crash the system.
        !            88: .br
        !            89: Mounting a root directory on a non-directory
        !            90: makes some apparently good pathnames invalid.

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