mount(8)
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NAME
mount - mount file systems
SYNOPSIS
mount [-Aadfruvw] [-t type]
mount [-dfruvw] special | node
mount [-dfruvw] [-o options] [-t type] special node
DESCRIPTION
The mount command invokes a filesystem-specific program to prepare and
graft the special device or remote node (rhost:path) on to the file sys-
tem tree at the point node. If either special or node are not provided,
the appropriate information is taken from the fstab(5) file. The provided
argument is looked up first in the ``fs_file'', then in the ``fs_spec''
column.
The system maintains a list of currently mounted file systems. If no ar-
guments are given to mount, this list is printed.
The options are as follows:
-A Causes mount to try to mount all of the file systems listed in
the fstab(5) file except those for which the ``noauto'' option is
specified.
-a Similar to the -A flag, except that if a file system (other than
the root file system) appears to be already mounted, mount will
not try to mount it again. mount assumes that a file system is
already mounted if a file system with the same type is mounted on
the given mount point. More stringent checks are not possible
because some file system types report strange values for the
mounted-from device for mounted file systems.
-d Causes everything to be done except for the invocation of the
filesystem-specific program. This option is useful in conjunc-
tion with the -v flag to determine what the mount command is try-
ing to do.
-f Forces the revocation of write access when trying to downgrade a
filesystem mount status from read-write to read-only.
-o Options are specified with a -o flag followed by a comma separat-
ed string of options. The following options are available:
async All I/O to the file system should be done asyn-
chronously. In the event of a crash, it is
impossible for the system to verify the integrity of
data on a file system mounted with this option. You
should only use this option if you have an applica-
tion-specific data recovery mechanism, or are willing
to recreate the file system from scratch.
noasync Clear async mode.
force The same as -f; forces the revocation of write access
when trying to downgrade a filesystem mount status
from read-write to read-only.
noatime Never update the access time field for files. This
option is useful for optimizing read performance on
filesystems that are used as news spools.
noauto This filesystem should be skipped when mount is run
with the -a flag.
nodev 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 de-
vices for architectures other than its own.
nodevmtime Do not update modification times on device special
files. This option is useful on laptops or other
systems that perform power management.
nocoredump Do not allow programs to create crash dumps (core
files) on the file system. This option can be used
to help protect sensitive data by keeping core files
(which may contain sensitive data) from being created
on insecure file systems. Only core files that would
be created by program crashes are prevented by use of
this flag; the behavior of savecore(8) is not affect-
ed.
noexec 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 architec-
tures other than its own.
nosuid Do not allow set-user-identifier or set-group-identi-
fier bits to take effect.
rdonly The same as -r; mount the file system read-only (even
the super-user may not write it).
symperm Recognize permission of symbolic link when reading or
traversing link.
sync All I/O to the file system should be done syn-
chronously. This is not equivalent to the normal mode
in which only metadata is written synchronously.
nosync Clear sync mode.
update The same as -u; indicate that the status of an al-
ready mounted file system should be changed.
union Causes the namespace at the mount point to appear as
the union of the mounted filesystem root and the ex-
isting directory. Lookups will be done in the mount-
ed filesystem first. If those operations fail due to
a non-existent file the underlying directory is then
accessed. All creates are done in the mounted
filesystem, except for the fdesc file system.
Any additional options specific to a given filesystem type (see
the -t option) may be passed as a comma separated list; these op-
tions are distinguished by a leading ``-'' (dash). Options that
take a value are specified using the syntax -option=value. For
example, the mount command:
mount -t mfs -o nosuid,-N,-s=4000 /dev/dk0b /tmp
causes mount to execute the equivalent of:
/sbin/mount_mfs -o nosuid -N -s 4000 /dev/dk0b /tmp
-r The file system is to be mounted read-only. Mount the file sys-
tem read-only (even the super-user may not write it). The same
as the ``rdonly'' argument to the -o option.
-t type
The argument following the -t is used to indicate the file system
type. The type ffs is the default. The -t option can be used to
indicate that the actions should only be taken on filesystems of
the specified type. More than one type may be specified in a
comma separated list. The list of filesystem types can be pre-
fixed with ``no'' to specify the filesystem types for which ac-
tion should not be taken. For example, the mount command:
mount -a -t nonfs,mfs
mounts all filesystems except those of type NFS and MFS.
mount will attempt to execute a program in /sbin/mount_XXX where
XXX is replaced by the type name. For example, nfs filesystems
are mounted by the program /sbin/mount_nfs.
-u 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
filesystem are currently open for writing unless the -f flag is
also specified. The set of options is determined by first ex-
tracting the options for the file system from the fstab(5) file,
then applying any options specified by the -o argument, and fi-
nally applying the -r or -w option.
-v Verbose mode.
-w The file system object is to be read and write.
The options specific to the various file system types are described in
the manual pages for those file systems' mount_XXX commands. For in-
stance the options specific to Berkeley Fast File System (FFS) are de-
scribed in the mount_ffs(8) manual page.
The particular type of filesystem in each partition of a disk can be
found by examining the disk label with the disklabel(8) command.
EXAMPLES
Some useful examples:
CD-ROM
mount -t cd9660 -r /dev/cd0a /cdrom
MS-DOS
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0a /floppy
NFS
mount nfs-server-host:/directory/path /mount-point
The "noauto" directive in /etc/fstab can be used to make it easy to manu-
ally mount and unmount removeable media using just the mountpoint file-
name, with an entry like this:
/dev/cd0a /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0
That would allow a simple command like "mount /cdrom" or "umount /cdrom"
for media using the ISO-9660 filesystem format in the first CD-ROM drive.
FILES
/etc/fstab file system table
SEE ALSO
mount(2), fstab(5), disklabel(8), mount_ados(8), mount_cd9660(8),
mount_ext2fs(8), mount_fdesc(8), mount_ffs(8), mount_filecore(8),
mount_kernfs(8), mount_lfs(8), mount_mfs(8), mount_msdos(8),
mount_nfs(8), mount_null(8), mount_portal(8), mount_procfs(8),
mount_umap(8), mount_union(8), umount(8)
HISTORY
A mount command appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX.
4th Berkeley Distribution June 16, 1994 4
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