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1.1     ! root        1: .TH MOUNT 8
        !             2: .CT 1 sa_nonmortals
        !             3: .SH NAME
        !             4: mount, umount \- mount and dismount file system
        !             5: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             6: .B /etc/mount
        !             7: [
        !             8: .I special name
        !             9: [
        !            10: .I fstype
        !            11: [
        !            12: .I flags
        !            13: ] ] ]
        !            14: .PP
        !            15: .B /etc/mount
        !            16: .B -a
        !            17: .PP
        !            18: .B /etc/mount
        !            19: [
        !            20: .I special name
        !            21: [
        !            22: .B -r
        !            23: ]
        !            24: ]
        !            25: .PP
        !            26: .B /etc/umount
        !            27: .I name
        !            28: .PP
        !            29: .B /etc/umount
        !            30: .B -a
        !            31: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            32: .I Mount
        !            33: announces to the system that a removable file system
        !            34: of type
        !            35: .I fstype
        !            36: is present on the file
        !            37: .I special.
        !            38: The file
        !            39: .I name
        !            40: must exist already;
        !            41: it becomes the name of the newly mounted root.
        !            42: .I Fstype
        !            43: and
        !            44: .I flags
        !            45: are integers;
        !            46: if omitted,
        !            47: they default to 0.
        !            48: Type 0
        !            49: is an ordinary disk file system.
        !            50: Other types
        !            51: and possible flag values
        !            52: are listed in
        !            53: .IR fmount (2).
        !            54: .PP
        !            55: The shorthand
        !            56: .B "mount special file -r"
        !            57: is equivalent to
        !            58: .BR "mount special file 0 1" :
        !            59: mount an ordinary file system
        !            60: read-only.
        !            61: .PP
        !            62: If option
        !            63: .B -a
        !            64: is present,
        !            65: .I mount
        !            66: attempts to mount, in order, every file system listed in
        !            67: .IR fstab (5).
        !            68: .PP
        !            69: .I Umount
        !            70: announces to the system that the file system mounted on file 
        !            71: .I name
        !            72: is to be removed.
        !            73: .PP
        !            74: These commands
        !            75: maintain a table of mounted file systems in
        !            76: .FR /etc/mtab ;
        !            77: see
        !            78: .IR fstab (5).
        !            79: If invoked without an argument,
        !            80: .I mount
        !            81: prints the table.
        !            82: If option
        !            83: .B -a
        !            84: is present,
        !            85: .I umount
        !            86: attempts to remove, in reverse order, each file system listed in
        !            87: .IR mtab .
        !            88: .PP
        !            89: Physically write-protected and magnetic tape file
        !            90: systems must be mounted read-only
        !            91: or errors will occur when access times are updated,
        !            92: even if no explicit write is attempted.
        !            93: .SH EXAMPLES
        !            94: .TP
        !            95: .B "/etc/mount /dev/ra02 /usr"
        !            96: Mount the file system on disk
        !            97: .L /dev/ra02
        !            98: on directory
        !            99: .LR /usr .
        !           100: .TP
        !           101: .B "/etc/mount /dev/null /proc 2"      
        !           102: Mount the process file system.
        !           103: .SH FILES
        !           104: .TF /etc/fstab
        !           105: .TP
        !           106: .F /etc/mtab
        !           107: mount table
        !           108: .TP
        !           109: .F /etc/fstab
        !           110: file system table
        !           111: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !           112: .IR fmount (2),
        !           113: .IR fstab (5), 
        !           114: .IR netfs (8)
        !           115: .SH BUGS
        !           116: Mounting file systems full of garbage may crash the system.
        !           117: .br
        !           118: Mounting a root directory on a non-directory
        !           119: makes some apparently good pathnames invalid.

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