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1.1       root        1: .TH MOUNT 8  "4 February 1983"
                      2: .UC 4
                      3: .SH NAME
                      4: mount, umount \- mount and dismount file system
                      5: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      6: .B /etc/mount
                      7: [ special name [
                      8: .B \-r
                      9: ] ]
                     10: .PP
                     11: .B /etc/mount
                     12: .B \-a
                     13: .PP
                     14: .B /etc/umount
                     15: special
                     16: .PP
                     17: .B /etc/umount
                     18: .B \-a
                     19: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     20: .I Mount
                     21: announces to the system that a removable file system
                     22: is present on the device
                     23: .I special.
                     24: The file
                     25: .I name
                     26: must exist already; it
                     27: must be a directory (unless the root of the
                     28: mounted file system is not a directory).
                     29: It becomes the name of the newly mounted root.
                     30: The optional argument
                     31: .B \-r
                     32: indicates that the file system
                     33: is to be mounted read-only.
                     34: .PP
                     35: .I Umount
                     36: announces to the system that the removable file system previously
                     37: mounted on device
                     38: .I special
                     39: is to be removed.
                     40: .PP
                     41: If the
                     42: .B \-a
                     43: option is present for either
                     44: .I mount
                     45: or
                     46: .I umount,
                     47: all of the file systems described in
                     48: .I /etc/fstab
                     49: are attempted to be mounted or unmounted.
                     50: In this case,
                     51: .I special
                     52: and
                     53: .I name
                     54: are taken from
                     55: .I /etc/fstab.
                     56: The
                     57: .I special
                     58: file name from
                     59: .I /etc/fstab
                     60: is the block special name.
                     61: .PP
                     62: These commands
                     63: maintain a table of mounted devices in
                     64: .I /etc/mtab.
                     65: If invoked without an argument,
                     66: .I mount
                     67: prints the table.
                     68: .PP
                     69: Physically write-protected and magnetic tape file
                     70: systems must be mounted read-only
                     71: or errors will occur when access times are updated,
                     72: whether or not any explicit write is attempted.
                     73: Setting the write-protected button alone
                     74: is not sufficient to notify the system of the
                     75: intent.  This may even adversely affect the file system.
                     76: .SH FILES
                     77: /etc/mtab      mount table
                     78: .br
                     79: /etc/fstab     file system table
                     80: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                     81: mount(2),
                     82: mtab(5), fstab(5)
                     83: .SH BUGS
                     84: Mounting file systems full of garbage will crash the system.
                     85: .br
                     86: Mounting a root directory on a non-directory
                     87: makes some apparently good pathnames invalid.

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