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mount(1M) mount(1M)
NAME
mount, umount - mount and unmount file systems
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/mount
[-l][-p-v]
/usr/sbin/mount -a
[-F FStype][-eQ]
/usr/sbin/mount
[-F FStype][-eQrV][-o specific_options ]{special directory }
/usr/sbin/mount
[-F FStype][-eQrV][-o
specific_options ] special directory
/usr/sbin/umount
[-v][-V]{special directory }
/usr/sbin/umount -a
[-F FStype][-h host][
-v]
DESCRIPTION
The
mount command mounts file systems. Only a superuser can mount file systems. Other users can
use mount to list mounted file systems.
The
mount command attaches special , a removable file system, to directory , a directory on the file tree.
directory , which must already exist, will become the name of the root of the newly mounted file system.
special and directory must be given as absolute path names. If either special or directory is omitted,
mount attempts to determine the missing value from an entry in the /etc/fstab file. mount
can be
invoked on any removable file system, except
/.
If
mount is invoked without any arguments, it lists all of the mounted file systems from the file system
mount table, /etc/mnttab.
The
umount command unmounts mounted file systems. Only a superuser can unmount file systems.
Options (mount)
The
mount command recognizes the following options:
-a Attempt to mount all file systems described in /etc/fstab. All optional fields in
/etc/fstab must be included and supported. If the -F option is specified, all file
systems in /etc/fstab with that FStype are mounted. If noauto is specified in
an entry’s option list, this entry is skipped. File systems are not necessarily
mounted in the order listed in /etc/fstab.
-e Verbose mode. Write a message to the standard output indicating which file system
is being mounted.
-F FStype Specify FStype, the file system type on which to operate. See fstyp (1M). If this
option is not included on the command line, then it is determined from either
/etc/fstab, by matching special with an entry in that file, or from file system
statistics of special , obtained by statfsdev() (see statfsdev (3C)).
-l Limit actions to local file systems only.
-o specific_options
Specify options specific to each file system type. specific_options is a list of comma
separated suboptions and/or keyword/attribute pairs intended for a FStype-specific
version of the command. See the FStype -specific manual entries for a description of
the specific_options supported, if any.
-p Report the list of mounted file systems in the /etc/fstab format.
-Q Prevent the display of error messages that result from an attempt to mount already
mounted file systems.
-r Mount the specified file system as read-only. Physically write-protected file systems
must be mounted in this way or errors occur when access times are updated,
whether or not any explicit write is attempted.
-h Unmount only those file systems listed in /etc/mnttab that are remote-mounted
from host.
-v Report the regular output with file system type and flags; however, the directory
and special fields are reversed.
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