MOUNT(8) 1990 MOUNT(8) NNAAMMEE mount, umount - mount and dismount file systems SSYYNNOOPPSSIISS mmoouunntt [ --aaffrrwwuu ] [ --tt nfs | ufs | external_type ] mmoouunntt [ --ffrrwwuu ] special | node mmoouunntt [ --ffrrwwuu ] [ --tt nfs | ufs | external_type ] [ --oo options ] special node uummoouunntt [ --aaff ] [ --tt nfs | ufs | external_type ] uummoouunntt [ --ff ] special | node DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN _M_o_u_n_t announces to the system that a removable file system is present on the block device _s_p_e_c_i_a_l or the remote node ``rhost:path''. The file _n_o_d_e must exist already and it must be a directory. It becomes the name of the newly mounted root. The optional arguments -_r and -_w indicate that the file system is to be mounted read-only or read-write, respectively. If either _s_p_e_c_i_a_l or _f_i_l_e are not provided, the appropriate information is taken from the _f_s_t_a_b file. The -_f option causes everything to be done except for the actual system call; if it's not obvious, this ``fakes'' mounting the file system. This option is useful in conjunc- tion with the -_v flag to determine what the _m_o_u_n_t command is trying to do. The optional argument -_t can be used to indicate the file system type. The type uuffss is the default. If the type is not one of the internally known types, mount will attempt to execute a program in //ssbbiinn//mmoouunntt__XXXXXX where XXXXXX is replaced by the type name. The standard mount options (see below) are parsed and passed to external program via the -_F option as a decimal number. Any additional options specific to the program can be passed as a comma separated list; these options are distinguished by starting with a - (dash). Those options that take a value are specified using the syn- tax -option=value. For example, the mount command: mount -t mfs -o nosuid,-N,-s=4000 /dev/dk0b /tmp causes mount to attempt to execute: /sbin/mount_mfs -F 8 -N -s 4000 /dev/dk0b /tmp Options are specified by a -_o argument followed by a comma separated string of options. The following options apply to any file system that is being mounted: noexec Do not allow execution of any binaries on the mounted file system. This options is useful for a server that has file systems containing binaries for architectures other than its own. nosuid Do not allow set-user-identifier or set-group- Printed 7/27/90 June 1 MOUNT(8) 1990 MOUNT(8) identifier bits to take effect. nodev Do not interpret character or block special dev- ices on the file system. This options is useful for a server that has file systems containing special devices for architectures other than its own. synchronous All I/O to the file system should be done syn- chronously. The -_u flag indicates that the status of an already mounted file system should be changed. Any of the options above may be changed; also a file system can be changed from read-only to read-write. The set of options is determined by first extracting the options for the file system from the _f_s_t_a_b table, then applying any options specified by the -_o argu- ment, and finally applying the -_r or -_w option. The following list can be used to override the defaults for an nfs mount: hard I/O system calls will retry until the server responds (default) soft I/O system calls will fail and return errno after _r_e_t_r_a_n_s request retransmissions spongy Soft semantics for the stat, lookup, fsstat, readlink and readdir filesystem operations and hard semantics for the others. This option is meant to be similar to hard, except that processes will not be hung forever when they trip over mount points to dead servers. bg If the first mount request times out, do retries in background intr I/O system calls can be interrupted. noconn Do not connect the socket. Used for UDP servers that send replies from a socket other than the nfs server socket. tcp Use TCP transport instead of UDP. rsize=# Set read size to # bytes. wsize=# Set write size to # bytes. retry=# Set mount retry count to #. Printed 7/27/90 June 2 MOUNT(8) 1990 MOUNT(8) retrans=# Set retransmission count for nfs rpc's to #. timeo=# Set initial nfs timeout to # in 0.1 sec inter- vals. _U_m_o_u_n_t announces to the system that the removable file sys- tem _n_o_d_e or whatever removable file system was previously mounted on device _s_p_e_c_i_a_l should be removed. If the -_f option is specified for _u_m_o_u_n_t, the file system is forcibly unmounted. Active special devices continue to work, but all other files return errors if further accesses are attempted. The root file system cannot be forcibly unmounted. If the -_a option is present for either _m_o_u_n_t or _u_m_o_u_n_t, all of the file systems described in _f_s_t_a_b are mounted or unmounted. The optional argument -_t can be used to indicate that the actions should only be taken on filesystems of the specified type. More than one type may be specified in a comma separated list. The list of filesystem types can be prefixed with ``no'' to specify the filesystem types on which no action should be taken. For example, the mount command: mount -a -t nonfs,mfs mounts all filesystems except those of type NFS and MFS. The system maintains a list of currently mounted file sys- tems. If invoked without an argument, _m_o_u_n_t prints the list. The optional argument -_t can be used to indicate that only filesystems of the specified type should be listed. More than one type may be specified in a comma separated list. The list of filesystem types can be prefixed with ``no'' to indicate the types of filesystems to be excluded from the listing. Physically write-protected and magnetic tape file systems must be mounted read-only or errors will occur when access times are updated, whether or not any explicit write is attempted. FFIILLEESS /etc/fstab file system table SSEEEE AALLSSOO mount(2), unmount(2), fstab(5) BBUUGGSS Mounting garbaged file systems will crash the system. Mounting a root directory on a non-directory makes some apparently good path names invalid. Printed 7/27/90 June 3