MOUNT(VIII) 10/31/73 MOUNT(VIII)
NAME
mount - mount file system
SYNOPSIS
/etc/mount special file [ -r ]
DESCRIPTION
Mount announces to the system that a removable file system
is present on the device corresponding to special file
special (which must refer to a disk or possibly DECtape).
The file must exist already; it becomes the name of the root
of the newly mounted file system.
Mount maintains a table of mounted devices; if invoked
without an argument it prints the table.
The optional last argument indicates that the file is to be
mounted read-only. Physically write-protected and magnetic
tape file systems must be mounted in this way or errors will
occur when access times are updated, whether or not any
explicit write is attempted.
SEE ALSO
mount (II), mtab (V), umount (VIII)
BUGS
Mounting file systems full of garbage will crash the system.