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authorKarel Zak2017-11-22 12:45:33 +0100
committerKarel Zak2017-11-22 12:45:33 +0100
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mount: add hint about -t and root perms to the man page
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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@@ -82,6 +82,10 @@ This tells the kernel to attach the filesystem found on
.IR type )
at the directory
.IR dir .
+The option \fB\-t \fItype\fR is optional. The
+.B mount
+command is usually able to detect a filesystem. The root permissions are necessary
+to mount a filesystem by default. See section "Non-superuser mounts" below for more details.
The previous contents (if any) and owner and mode of
.I dir
become invisible, and as long as this filesystem remains mounted,