NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPTIONS | FILES | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO | NOTES
mount attaches an MS-DOS file system (pcfs) to the file system hierarchy at the mount_point, which is the pathname of a directory. If mount_point has any contents prior to the mount operation, these are hidden until the file system is unmounted.
If mount is invoked with special or mount_point as the only arguments, mount will search /etc/vfstab to fill in the missing arguments, including the FSType-specific_options; see mount(1M) for more details.
The special argument can be one of two special device file types:
A floppy disk, such as /dev/diskette0 or /dev/diskette1.
A DOS logical drive on a hard disk expressed as device-name:logical-drive , where device-name specifies the special block device-file for the whole disk and logical-drive is either a drive letter (c through z) or a drive number (1 through 24). Examples are /dev/dsk/c0t0d0p0:c and /dev/dsk/c0t0d0p0:1.
The special device file type must have a formatted MS-DOS file system with either a 12-bit, 16-bit, or 32-bit File Allocation Table.
See mount(1M) for the list of supported options.
Specify pcfs file system specific options. The following options are available:
Mount the file system read/write or read-only. The default is rw.
Force uppercase characters in filenames to lowercase when reading them from the filesystem. This is for compatibility with the previous behavior of pcfs. The default is nofoldcase.
table of mounted file systems
list of default parameters for each file system
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
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Availability | SUNWesu |
If the directory on which a file system is to be mounted is a symbolic link, the file system is mounted on the directory to which the symbolic link refers, rather than on top of the symbolic link itself.
NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPTIONS | FILES | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO | NOTES