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authorKarel Zak2006-12-07 00:26:12 +0100
committerKarel Zak2006-12-07 00:26:12 +0100
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diff --git a/mount/mount.8 b/mount/mount.8
index 32a5e8501..794cc32fd 100644
--- a/mount/mount.8
+++ b/mount/mount.8
@@ -224,6 +224,7 @@ maintain a list of currently mounted file systems in the file
If no arguments are given to
.BR mount ,
this list is printed.
+
When the
.I proc
filesystem is mounted (say at
@@ -241,7 +242,8 @@ option below). It is possible to replace
by a symbolic link to
.IR /proc/mounts ,
but some information is lost that way, and in particular
-working with the loop device will be less convenient.
+working with the loop device will be less convenient,
+and using the "user" option will fail.
.SH OPTIONS
The full set of options used by an invocation of
@@ -295,6 +297,9 @@ flag to determine what the
command is trying to do. It can also be used to add entries for devices
that were mounted earlier with the -n option.
.TP
+.B \-i
+Don't call the /sbin/mount.<filesystem> helper even if it exists.
+.TP
.B \-l
Add the ext2, ext3 and XFS labels in the mount output. Mount must have
permission to read the disk device (e.g. be suid root) for this to work.
@@ -310,6 +315,12 @@ This is necessary for example when
.I /etc
is on a read-only file system.
.TP
+.BI \-p " num"
+In case of a loop mount with encryption, read the passphrase from
+file descriptor
+.I num
+instead of from the terminal.
+.TP
.B \-s
Tolerate sloppy mount options rather than failing. This will ignore
mount options not supported by a filesystem type. Not all filesystems
@@ -402,7 +413,7 @@ treat all types in a uniform way, mount will execute the program
Since various versions of the
.I smbmount
program have different calling conventions,
-.I /sbin/mount.smb
+.I /sbin/mount.smbfs
may have to be a shell script that sets up the desired call.
The type
@@ -1095,6 +1106,8 @@ decimal. (Octal is indicated by a leading 0.)
.TP
.B unhide
Also show hidden and associated files.
+(If the ordinary files and the associated or hidden files have
+the same filenames, this may make the ordinary files inaccessible.)
.TP
.B block=[512|1024|2048]
Set the block size to the indicated value.
@@ -1116,11 +1129,21 @@ The `cruft' option is set automatically if the entire CDROM
has a weird size (negative, or more than 800MB). It is also
set when volume sequence numbers other than 0 or 1 are seen.
.TP
-.B session=x
+.BI session= x
Select number of session on multisession CD. (Since 2.3.4.)
.TP
-.B sbsector=xxx
+.BI sbsector= xxx
Session begins from sector xxx. (Since 2.3.4.)
+.LP
+The following options are the same as for vfat and specifying them only makes
+sense when using discs encoded using Microsoft's Joliet extensions.
+.TP
+.BI iocharset= value
+Character set to use for converting 16 bit Unicode characters on CD
+to 8 bit characters. The default is iso8859-1.
+.TP
+.B utf8
+Convert 16 bit Unicode characters on CD to UTF-8.
.SH "Mount options for minix"
None.
@@ -1133,16 +1156,16 @@ file system detects an inconsistency, it reports an error and sets the file
system read-only. The file system can be made writeable again by remounting
it.
-.SH "Mount options for ncp"
+.SH "Mount options for ncpfs"
Just like
-.IR nfs ", the " ncp
+.IR nfs ", the " ncpfs
implementation expects a binary argument (a
.IR "struct ncp_mount_data" )
to the mount system call. This argument is constructed by
.BR ncpmount (8)
and the current version of
.B mount
-(2.6h) does not know anything about ncp.
+(2.12) does not know anything about ncpfs.
.SH "Mount options for nfs"
Instead of a textual option string, parsed by the kernel, the
@@ -1346,14 +1369,14 @@ None.
.SH "Mount options for smbfs"
Just like
-.IR nfs ", the " smb
+.IR nfs ", the " smbfs
implementation expects a binary argument (a
.IR "struct smb_mount_data" )
to the mount system call. This argument is constructed by
.BR smbmount (8)
and the current version of
.B mount
-(2.9w) does not know anything about smb.
+(2.12) does not know anything about smbfs.
.SH "Mount options for sysv"
None.