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NAME

6       Intro,  intro  -  introduction  to maintenance commands and application
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DESCRIPTION

10       This section describes, in alphabetical order, commands that  are  used
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14       Because  of command restructuring for the Virtual File System architec‐
15       ture, there are several instances of multiple manual pages  that  begin
16       with  the  same  name.  For  example,  the    mount, pages − mount(1M),
17       mount_cachefs(1M), mount_hsfs(1M), mount_nfs(1M),  mount_tmpfs(1M), and
18       mount_ufs(1M).  In  each  such  case  the  first  of the multiple pages
19       describes the syntax and options of the generic command, that is, those
20       options  applicable  to all FSTypes (file system types). The succeeding
21       pages describe the functionality of the FSType-specific modules of  the
22       command.  These  pages list the command followed by an underscore ( _ )
23       and the FSType to which  they  pertain.  Note  that  the  administrator
24       should  not attempt to call these modules directly. The generic command
25       provides a common interface to all of them.  Thus  the  FSType-specific
26       manual  pages should not be viewed as describing distinct commands, but
27       rather as detailing those aspects of a command that are specific  to  a
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COMMAND SYNTAX

31       Unless  otherwise  noted,  commands  described  in  this section accept
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ATTRIBUTES

67       See attributes(5) for a discussion of the  attributes  listed  in  this
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

71       Sun  Microsystems, Inc. gratefully acknowledges The Open Group for per‐
72       mission to reproduce portions of its copyrighted documentation.  Origi‐
73       nal  documentation  from  The  Open  Group  can  be  obtained online at
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87       in the SunOS Reference Manual, from  IEEE  Std  1003.1,  2004  Edition,
88       Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Inter‐
89       face (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6, Copyright (C)
90       2001-2004 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc
91       and The Open Group.  In the event of any discrepancy between these ver‐
92       sions  and  the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original
93       IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document.  The original
94       Standard     can     be    obtained    online    at    http://www.open
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SEE ALSO

101       getopt(1), getopt(3C), attributes(5)
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DIAGNOSTICS

104       Upon termination, each command returns 0  for  normal  termination  and
105       non-zero  to  indicate  troubles  such  as erroneous parameters, bad or
106       inaccessible data, or other inability to cope with the task at hand. It
107       is called variously ``exit code,'' ``exit status,'' or ``return code,''
108       and is described only where special conventions are involved.
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NOTES

111       Unfortunately, not all commands adhere to the standard syntax.
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