System Administration Guide

How to Mount a UFS File System

  1. Make sure you have met the prerequisites listed in "Prerequisites".

  2. Mount the UFS file system.


    # mount [-o mount-options] /dev/dsk/device-namemount-point
    

    -o mount-options

    Specifies mount options that you can use to mount a UFS file system. See Table 28-2 for the list of general mount options or mount_ufs(1M) for a complete list of options.

    /dev/dsk/device-name

    The special block device file for the disk slice holding the file system (for example, /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s7). See Chapter 26, File Systems (Overview) for information about how to find out disk device names.

    mount-point

    The directory where the file system is mounted. 

Example--Mounting a UFS File System

In this example, /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s7 is mounted on the /files1 directory.


# mount /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s7 /files1