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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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