mount.8 (1445B)
- .Dd February 2, 2015
- .Dt MOUNT 8
- .Os ubase
- .Sh NAME
- .Nm mount
- .Nd mount a filesystem
- .Sh SYNOPSIS
- .Nm
- .Op Fl BMRan
- .Op Fl o Ar options
- .Op Fl t Ar fstype
- .Op Ar source
- .Op Ar target
- .Sh DESCRIPTION
- .Nm
- attaches the filesystem specified to the filesystem hierarchy. The
- .Xr umount 8
- command will detach it again.
- .Sh OPTIONS
- .Bl -tag -width Ds
- .It Fl B
- Remount a subtree somewhere else (so that its contents are visible in both
- places).
- .It Fl M
- Move a subtree to some other place.
- .It Fl R
- Remount a subtree and all possible submounts somewhere else (so that its
- contents are available in both places).
- .It Fl a
- Mount all filesystems mentioned in
- .Pa /etc/fstab .
- .It Fl n
- Mount without writing in
- .Pa /etc/mtab .
- This is the default action.
- .It Fl o Ar options
- Specify a comma separated string of filesystem specific options.
- .It Fl t Ar fstype
- Set the filesystem type. More than one type may be specified in a comma
- separated list. The list of file system types can be prefixed with "no" to
- specify the file system types for which action should not be taken. For
- example, the
- .Nm
- command:
- .Bd -literal
- # mount -a -t nonfs,ext4
- .Ed
- mounts all file systems except those of type NFS and EXT4.
- .Nm
- will attempt to execute a program in your
- .Ev PATH
- mount.XXX where XXX is replaced by the type name. For example, NFS file
- systems are mounted by the program
- .Pa mount.nfs .
- .El
- .Sh SEE ALSO
- .Xr mount 2 ,
- .Xr umount 2 ,
- .Xr swapon 8 ,
- .Xr umount 8