.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1989, 1991 The Regents of the University of California. .\" All rights reserved. .\" .\" %sccs.include.redist.roff% .\" .\" @(#)mount.8 6.18 (Berkeley) 01/06/92 .\" .Dd .Dt MOUNT 8 .Os BSD 4 .Sh NAME .Nm mount , .Nm umount .Nd mount and dismount file systems .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm mount .Op Fl afrwu .Op Fl t Ar ufs | lfs | external_type .Nm mount .Op Fl frwu .Ar special | node .Nm mount .Op Fl frwu .Op Fl t Ar ufs | lfs | external_type .Op Fl o Ar options .Ar special node .Nm umount .Op Fl af .Op Fl t Ar ufs | lfs | external_type .Nm umount .Op Fl f .Ar special | node .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm mount command calls the .Xr mount 2 system call to prepare and graft a .Ar special device or the remote node (rhost:path) on to the file system tree at the point .Ar node. If either .Ar special or .Ar node are not provided, the appropriate information is taken from the .Xr fstab 5 file. .Pp The system maintains a list of currently mounted file systems. If no arguments are given to .Nm mount, this list is printed. .Pp Options available for the .Nm mount command: .Bl -tag -width indent .It Fl F The standard mount options are parsed and passed to external program via the .Fl F option as a decimal number. (See example below.) .It Fl f Causes everything to be done except for the actual system call; if it's not obvious, this ``fakes'' mounting the file system. This option is useful in conjunction with the .Fl v flag to determine what the .Nm mount command is trying to do. .It Fl o Options are specified with a .Fl o flag followed by a comma separated string of options. The following options apply to any file system that is being mounted: .Bl -tag -width indent .It noexec Do not allow execution of any binaries on the mounted file system. This options is useful for a server that has file systems containing binaries for architectures other than its own. .It nosuid Do not allow set-user-identifier or set-group-identifier bits to take effect. .It nodev Do not interpret character or block special devices on the file system. This options is useful for a server that has file systems containing special devices for architectures other than its own. .It synchronous All .Tn I/O to the file system should be done synchronously. .El .It Fl r The file system object is to be mounted read-only. .It Fl t Ar "ufs \\*(Ba lfs \\*(Ba external type" The argument following the .Fl t is used to indicate the file system type. The type .Ar ufs is the default. The \fI-t\fP 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 prefixed with ``no'' to specify the filesystem types on which no action should be taken. For example, the .Nm mount command: .Bd -literal -offset indent mount -a -t nonfs,mfs .Ed .Pp mounts all filesystems except those of type .Tn NFS and .Tn MFS . .Pp If the type is not one of the internally known types, mount will attempt to execute a program in .Pa /sbin/mount_ Ns Em XXX where .Em XXX is replaced by the type name. For example, nfs filesystems are mounted by the program .Pa /sbin/mount_nfs . .It Fl u The .Fl u flag indicates that the status of an already mounted file system should be changed. Any of the options discussed above (the .Fl o option) may be changed; also a file system can be changed from read-only to read-write. The set of options is determined by first extracting the options for the file system from the .Xr fstab table, then applying any options specified by the .Fl o argument, and finally applying the .Fl r or .Fl w option. .It Fl v Verbose mode. .It Fl w The file system object is to be read and write. .It Fl Any additional options specific to the program can be passed as a comma separated list; these options are distinguished by starting with a .Fl (dash). .El .Pp Those options that take a value are specified using the syntax -option=value. For example, the mount command: .Bd -literal -offset indent mount -t mfs -o nosuid,-N,-s=4000 /dev/dk0b /tmp .Ed .Pp causes mount to attempt to execute: .Bd -literal -offset indent /sbin/mount_mfs -F 8 -N -s 4000 /dev/dk0b /tmp .Ed .Pp The options specific to NFS filesystems are described in the .Xr mount_nfs 8 manual page. .Pp .Nm Umount removes the .Ar special device grafted at point .Ar node from file system tree. .Pp Options for the .Nm umount command: .Bl -tag -width indent .It Fl f The file system is forcibly unmounted. Active special devices continue to work, but all other files return errors if further accesses are attempted. The root file system cannot be forcibly unmounted. .It Fl a All of the file systems described in .Xr fstab 5 are unmounted. .It Fl t Is used to indicate 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 prefixed with ``no'' to specify the filesystem types on which no action should be taken. (See example above for the .Nm mount command.) .El .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width /etc/fstab -compact .It Pa /etc/fstab file system table .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr mount 2 , .Xr unmount 2 , .Xr fstab 5 .Sh BUGS It is possible for a corrupted file system to cause a crash. .Sh HISTORY A .Nm command appeared in .At v6 .