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mount is a target utility.
mount is available in two forms:
as a C_INIT(1M) built-in command; in that case, the configuration of the ADMIN_MOUNT feature is required
as a standalone command
mount calls the mount(2POSIX) system call to prepare and graft a remote node (hostaddr:file_system) or special_device onto the file system tree at the mount_point.
The system maintains a list of currently mounted file systems. If no arguments are given to mount, the list of mounted file systems is printed.
mount supports the following options:
options are specified with -o followed by a comma-separated list of options from the following list:
All I/O to the file system should be done asynchronously. This is a dangerous option to use, and should not be used unless you are prepared to recreate the file system should your system crash.
Forces the revocation of write access when trying to downgrade a file system mount status from read-write to read-only. Also forces the read-write mount of an unclean file system (dangerous; use with caution).
Do not update the file access time when reading from a file. This option is useful on file systems where there are large numbers of files and performance is more critical than updating the file access time (which is rarely ever important). This option is currently only supported on local filesystems.
Do not interpret character or block special devices on the file system. This option is useful for a server that has file systems containing special devices for architectures other than its own.
Do not allow execution of any binaries on the mounted file system. This option is useful for a server that has file systems containing binaries for architectures other than its own.
Do not allow set-user-identifier or set-group-identifier bits to take effect.
This option is worthless if a publicly available suid or sgid wrapper like suidperl is installed on your system.
Mount the file system read-only (even the super-user may not write to it).
All I/O to the file system should be done synchronously.
Indicate that the status of an already mounted file system should be changed.
Causes the namespace at the mount point to appear as the union of the mounted file system root and the existing directory. Lookups are done in the mounted file system first. If those operations fail due to a non-existent file the underlying directory is then accessed. All creates are done in the mounted file system.
The argument following the -t is used to indicate the file system type. nfs is the default.
The -u flag indicates that the status of an already mounted file system should be changed. Any of the options discussed above (the -o option) may be changed; also a file system can be changed from read-only to read-write or vice versa. An attempt to change from read-write to read-only will fail if any files on the file system are currently open for writing unless the -f flag is also specified. The set of options is determined by first extracting the options for the file system from the fstab(4CC) table, then applying any options specified by the -o argument, and finally applying the -r or -w option.
Verbose mode. The mount flags are displayed for each mounted file system.
Various, most of them are self-explanatory.
filesystem not available
filesystem type is not supported.
/etc/fstab file system table
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
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Interface Stability | Evolving |
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