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diff --git a/mount/mount.8 b/mount/mount.8 index 7016ee535..f90341198 100644 --- a/mount/mount.8 +++ b/mount/mount.8 @@ -98,6 +98,14 @@ lists all mounted file systems (of type The option \-l adds the (ext2) labels in this listing. See below. +.\" In fact since 2.3.99. At first the syntax was mount -t bind. +Since Linux 2.4.0 it is possible to remount part of the +file hierarchy somewhere else. The call is +.RS +.br +.B "mount --bind olddir newdir" +.RE + The .I proc file system is not associated with a special device, and when @@ -367,7 +375,8 @@ necessary. The nfs ad hoc code is built in, but smbfs and ncpfs have a separate mount program. In order to make it possible to treat all types in a uniform way, mount will execute the program .I /sbin/mount.TYPE -(if that exists) when called with type smb or ncp. +(if that exists) when called with type +.IR TYPE . Since various versions of the .I smbmount program have different calling conventions, |