mount_msdos(1M)

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPTIONS | FILES | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO | NOTES

NAME

mount_msdos- mount an MSDOS file system

SYNOPSIS

mount_msdos [-9] [-g gid] [-L locale] [-l] [-m mask] [-o options] [-s] [-u uid] [-W table] special_device node

DESCRIPTION

mount_msdos is a target utility.

mount_msdos attaches the MSDOS file system residing on the device special_device to the global file system namespace at the location indicated by node. This command is normally executed by mount(1M), but can be used by any user to mount an MSDOS file system on any directory that they own (provided, of course, that they have appropriate access to the device that contains the file system).

OPTIONS

mount_msdos supports the following options:

-9

Ignore the special Windows 95 directory entries even if deleting or renaming a file. This forces -s.

-g gid

Set the group of the files in the file system to gid. The default group is the group of the directory on which the file system is being mounted.

-L locale

Specify locale name used for internal uppercase and lowercase conversions for DOS and Windows 95 names. By default ISO 8859-1 assumed as local character set.

-l

Force listing and generation of Win'95 long filenames and separate creation/modification/access dates. If neither -s nor -l are given, mount_msdos searches the root directory of the file system to be mounted for any existing Windows 95 long filenames. If no such entries are found, -s is the default. Otherwise -l is assumed.

-m mask

Specify the maximum file permissions for files in the file system. (For example, a mask of 755 specifies that, by default, the owner should have read, write, and execute permissions for files, but others should only have read and execute permissions. See chmod(2POSIX) for more information about octal file modes.) Only the nine low-order bits of mask are used. The default mask is taken from the directory on which the file system is being mounted.

-o options

Use the specified mount options, as described in mount(1M).

-s

Force behavior to ignore and not generate Windows 95 long filenames.

-u uid

Set the owner of the files in the file system to uid. The default owner is the owner of the directory on which the file system is being mounted.

-W table

Specify text file with three conversion tables:

1. Local character set to Unicode conversion table (upper half) for Windows 95 long names, 128 Unicode codes. If a code is not present in Unicode, use 0x003F code as a replacement.

2. DOS to local character set conversion table (upper half) for DOS names, 128 character codes. Code 0x3F used when translation is not possible.

3. Local character set to DOS conversion table (upper half) for DOS names, 128 character codes. Some codes have special meanings:

   0x00

   character disallowed in DOS file name

   0x01

   character should be replaced by _ in DOS file name

   0x02

   character should be skipped in DOS file name.

By default ISO 8859-1 assumed as local character set. If the table path is not absolute, /usr/libdata/msdosfs/ is prepended.

FILES

/usr/libdata/msdosfs default place for character set conversion tables

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Interface Stability	Evolving

SEE ALSO

mount(2POSIX), fstab(4CC), mount(1M), mount_nfs(1M), umount(1M)

NOTES

The use of the -9 flag could result in damaged file systems, albeit the damage is in part taken care of by procedures similar to the ones used in Windows 95.

The default handling for -s and -l results in empty file systems being populated with short filenames only. To generate long filenames on empty DOS filesystems use -l.

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPTIONS | FILES | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO | NOTES