add the -f flag, remove mention that the inode can be a regular file

SCCS-vsn: sbin/mount/mount.8 6.3

diff --git a/usr/src/sbin/mount/mount.8 b/usr/src/sbin/mount/mount.8
index b1dcd28..a6a1dc8 100644 (file)
--- a/usr/src/sbin/mount/mount.8
+++ b/usr/src/sbin/mount/mount.8
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
 .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
 .\"
 .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
 .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
 .\"

-.\"    @(#)mount.8     6.2 (Berkeley) %G%
+.\"    @(#)mount.8     6.3 (Berkeley) %G%

 .\"
 .TH MOUNT 8 ""
 .UC 4
 .\"
 .TH MOUNT 8 ""
 .UC 4


@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@
 mount, umount \- mount and dismount file systems
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .nf
 mount, umount \- mount and dismount file systems
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .nf

-.B mount [-arw]
-.B mount [-rw] special | node
-.B mount [-rw] special node
+.B mount [-afrw]
+.B mount [-frw] special | node
+.B mount [-frw] special node

 .PP
 .B umount [-a]
 .B umount special | node
 .PP
 .B umount [-a]
 .B umount special | node


@@ -20,13 +20,14 @@ mount, umount \- mount and dismount file systems
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .I Mount
 announces to the system that a removable file system is present on the
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .I Mount
 announces to the system that a removable file system is present on the

-block device \fIspecial\fP.  The file \fInode\fP must exist already; it
-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. The optional
-arguments \fI-r\fP and \fI-w\fP indicate that the file system is to be
-mounted read-only or read-write, respectively.  If either \fIspecial\fP
-or \fIfile\fP are not provided, the appropriate information is taken
-from the \fIfstab\fP file.
+block device \fIspecial\fP.  The file \fInode\fP must exist already and
+it must be a directory.  It becomes the name of the newly mounted root.
+The optional arguments \fI-r\fP and \fI-w\fP indicate that the file
+system is to be mounted read-only or read-write, respectively.  If
+either \fIspecial\fP or \fIfile\fP are not provided, the appropriate
+information is taken from the \fIfstab\fP file.  The \fI-f\fP option
+causes everything to be done except for the actual system call; if it's
+not obvious, this ``fakes'' mounting the file system.

 .PP
 .I Umount
 announces to the system that the removable file system \fInode\fP
 .PP
 .I Umount
 announces to the system that the removable file system \fInode\fP