1MOUNT(1M)                                                            MOUNT(1M)
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NAME

6       mount, umount - mount and dismount file system
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SYNOPSIS

9       /etc/mount [ special name [ -r ] ]
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11       /etc/umount special
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DESCRIPTION

14       Mount  announces  to the system that a removable file system is present
15       on the device special.  The file name must exist already; it must be  a
16       directory  (unless  the root of the mounted file system is not a direc‐
17       tory).  It becomes the name of the newly mounted  root.   The  optional
18       last  argument  indicates  that  the file system is to be mounted read-
19       only.
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21       Umount announces to the system that the removable  file  system  previ‐
22       ously mounted on device special is to be removed.
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24       These commands maintain a table of mounted devices.  If invoked without
25       an argument, mount prints the table.
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27       Physically write-protected and  magnetic  tape  file  systems  must  be
28       mounted  read-only  or errors will occur when access times are updated,
29       whether or not any explicit write is attempted.
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FILES

32       /etc/mtab: mount table
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SEE ALSO

35       mount(2), mtab(5)
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BUGS

38       Mounting file systems full of garbage will crash the system.
39       Mounting a root directory on a non-directory makes some apparently good
40       pathnames invalid.
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