HP-UX Reference (11i v2 03/08) - 1M System Administration Commands N-Z (vol 4)

setmnt(1M) setmnt(1M)

NAME

setmnt - establish the ﬁle-system mount table, /etc/mnttab

SYNOPSIS

/usr/sbin/setmnt

DESCRIPTION

The setmnt command creates the /etc/mnttab table (see mnttab (4)), which is needed by both the

mount and umount commands (see mount(1M)). setmnt

reads the standard input and creates an

entry in

/etc/mnttab for each line of input. Input lines have the format:

ﬁlesys node

where ﬁlesys is the name of the device special ﬁle associated with the ﬁle system (such as

/dev/dsk/c0t5d0

) and node is the root name of that ﬁle system. Thus ﬁlesys and node become the

ﬁrst two strings in the mount table entry.

WARNINGS

The

mount and umount commands rewrite the

/etc/mnttab ﬁle whenever a ﬁle system is mounted

or unmounted if

/etc/mnttab is found to be out of date with the mounted ﬁle system table maintained

internally by the HP-UX kernel. The syncer

command also updates /etc/mnttab if it is out of date

(see syncer(1M)).

/etc/mnttab should never be manually edited. Use of this command to write invalid information into

/etc/mnttab is strongly discouraged.

The

setmnt command is not intented to be run interactively; input should be directed to it from a ﬁle

(for example, setmnt < /tmp/file.mnt

). If run interactively, terminate input with a ctrl-D.

setmnt silently enforces an upper limit on the maximum number of /etc/mnttab entries.

It is unwise to use

setmnt to create false entries for mount and umount.

This command is obsolete and it may not be available for future releases.

FILES

/etc/mnttab Mounted ﬁle system table