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mount, umount \- mount and dismount file system
announces to the system that a removable file system
must be a directory (unless the root of the
mounted file system is not a directory).
It becomes the name of the newly mounted root.
indicates that the file system
is to be mounted read-only.
announces to the system that the removable file system previously
option is present for either
all of the file systems described in
are attempted to be mounted or unmounted.
is the block special name.
maintain a table of mounted devices in
If invoked without an argument,
Physically write-protected and magnetic tape file
systems must be mounted read-only
or errors will occur when access times are updated,
whether or not any explicit write is attempted.
/etc/fstab file system table
Mounting file systems full of garbage will crash the system.
Mounting a root directory on a non-directory
makes some apparently good pathnames invalid.