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1.1       root        1: .TH MTAB 5  "26 June 1983"
                      2: .UC 4
                      3: .SH NAME
                      4: mtab \- mounted file system table
                      5: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      6: .B "#include <fstab.h>
                      7: .br
                      8: .B "#include <mtab.h>"
                      9: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     10: .I Mtab
                     11: resides in directory
                     12: .I /etc
                     13: and contains a table of devices mounted by the
                     14: .I mount
                     15: command.
                     16: .I Umount
                     17: removes entries.
                     18: .PP
                     19: The table is a series of
                     20: .I mtab
                     21: structures, as defined in
                     22: .IR < mtab.h >.
                     23: Each entry contains the null-padded name of
                     24: the place where the special file is mounted,
                     25: the null-padded name of the special file, and
                     26: a type field, one of those defined in
                     27: .RI < fstab.h >.
                     28: The special file has all its directories
                     29: stripped away;
                     30: that is, everything through the last `/' is thrown
                     31: away.  The type field indicates if the file system
                     32: is mounted read-only, read-write, or read-write with
                     33: disk quotas enabled.
                     34: .PP
                     35: This table is present only so people can look at it.
                     36: It does not matter to
                     37: .I mount
                     38: if there are duplicated entries nor
                     39: to
                     40: .I umount
                     41: if a name cannot be found.
                     42: .SH FILES
                     43: /etc/mtab
                     44: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                     45: mount(8)

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