mount.8 (1445B)
1 .Dd February 2, 2015 2 .Dt MOUNT 8 3 .Os ubase 4 .Sh NAME 5 .Nm mount 6 .Nd mount a filesystem 7 .Sh SYNOPSIS 8 .Nm 9 .Op Fl BMRan 10 .Op Fl o Ar options 11 .Op Fl t Ar fstype 12 .Op Ar source 13 .Op Ar target 14 .Sh DESCRIPTION 15 .Nm 16 attaches the filesystem specified to the filesystem hierarchy. The 17 .Xr umount 8 18 command will detach it again. 19 .Sh OPTIONS 20 .Bl -tag -width Ds 21 .It Fl B 22 Remount a subtree somewhere else (so that its contents are visible in both 23 places). 24 .It Fl M 25 Move a subtree to some other place. 26 .It Fl R 27 Remount a subtree and all possible submounts somewhere else (so that its 28 contents are available in both places). 29 .It Fl a 30 Mount all filesystems mentioned in 31 .Pa /etc/fstab . 32 .It Fl n 33 Mount without writing in 34 .Pa /etc/mtab . 35 This is the default action. 36 .It Fl o Ar options 37 Specify a comma separated string of filesystem specific options. 38 .It Fl t Ar fstype 39 Set the filesystem type. More than one type may be specified in a comma 40 separated list. The list of file system types can be prefixed with "no" to 41 specify the file system types for which action should not be taken. For 42 example, the 43 .Nm 44 command: 45 .Bd -literal 46 # mount -a -t nonfs,ext4 47 48 .Ed 49 mounts all file systems except those of type NFS and EXT4. 50 .Nm 51 will attempt to execute a program in your 52 .Ev PATH 53 mount.XXX where XXX is replaced by the type name. For example, NFS file 54 systems are mounted by the program 55 .Pa mount.nfs . 56 .El 57 .Sh SEE ALSO 58 .Xr mount 2 , 59 .Xr umount 2 , 60 .Xr swapon 8 , 61 .Xr umount 8