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diff --git a/mount/mount.8 b/mount/mount.8 index a47091dde..4c197f467 100644 --- a/mount/mount.8 +++ b/mount/mount.8 @@ -47,12 +47,18 @@ .\" Youngdale (eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil) and Remy Card .\" (Remy.Card@masi.ibp.fr). .\" Sun Apr 24 19:25:59 1994: Updated per information supplied by Remy Card. -.\" Thu Jul 14 07:44:36 1994: Updated absence of -t -.\" option. (faith@cs.unc.edu) +.\" Thu Jul 14 07:44:36 1994: Updated absence of -t option. +.\" (faith@cs.unc.edu) .\" Thu Jul 14 07:49:14 1994: Updated list of valid filesystems. .\" Wed Feb 8 09:25:48 1995: Updated man pages for Mike Grupenhoff's changes. +.\" Sat Jul 22 01:45:58 1995: Updated list of binary extensions for +.\" msdos conversion. (sl14@cornell.edu) +.\" Wed Jul 26 00:00:00 1995: Updated by Martin Schulze. +.\" (joey@infodrom.north.de) +.\" Tue Sep 26 12:02:03 1995: Updated umount, nfs, proc parts of page. +.\" (aeb@cwi.nl) .\" -.TH MOUNT 8 "8 February 1995" "Linux 1.1" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH MOUNT 8 "26 September 1995" "Linux 1.3" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME mount, umount \- mount and dismount file systems .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -62,9 +68,9 @@ mount, umount \- mount and dismount file systems .br .BI "mount [\-frwun] [\-t " vfstype "] [\-o " options "] " "special node" .br -.BI "umount [\-an] [\-t " vfstype ] +.BI "umount [\-ahvV] [\-t " vfstype ] .br -.BI "umount " "special " | " node" +.BI "umount [\-v] " "special " | " node " [...] .\" " for hilit19 .SH DESCRIPTION The @@ -79,13 +85,17 @@ If either .IR special " or " node are not provided, the appropriate information is taken from the .BR fstab (5) -file. The special keyword -.I none +file. The +.I proc +file system is not associated with a special device, and when +mounting it, an arbitrary keyword, such as +.I proc can be used instead of a path or .I node -specification. This is useful when mounting the -.I proc -file system. +specification. (The customary choice +.I none +is less fortunate: the error message `none busy' from umount +can be confusing.) The system maintains a list of currently mounted file systems. If no arguments are given to @@ -196,7 +206,7 @@ or Tells the .I ext2 file sysem kernel code to do some more checks while the file system is -mounted. Currently (0.99.15), the following values can be specified with +mounted. Currently (1.3.11), the following values can be specified with this option: .RS .TP @@ -268,11 +278,12 @@ CRLF<-->NL translation is performed on all files that don't have a "well-known binary" extension. The list of known extensions can be found at the beginning of .I fs/msdos/misc.c -(as of 09913r, the list is: exe, com, bin, app, sys, drv, ovl, ovr, obj, +(as of 1.3.11, the list is: exe, com, bin, app, sys, drv, ovl, ovr, obj, lib, dll, pif, arc, zip, lha, lzh, zoo, tar, z, arj, tz, taz, tzp, tpz, -gif, bmp, tif, gl, jpg, pcx, tfm, vf, gf, pk, pxl, dvi). +gz, tgz, deb, gif, bmp, tif, gl, jpg, pcx, tfm, vf, gf, pk, pxl, dvi). .PP Programs that do computed lseeks won't like in-kernel text conversion. +Several people have had their data ruined by this translation. Beware! For file systems mounted in .B binary @@ -346,7 +357,7 @@ and file systems, give every file a gid equal to .IR value . .TP -B grpid +.B grpid Causes the .I ext2fs to use the BSD behavior when creating files: file are created with the @@ -402,6 +413,19 @@ file system, turn on the flag. Attempts to chown or chmod files do not yield errors, although they fail. Use with caution! .TP +.B soft +For the +.IR nfs +file system this allows the kernel to time out if the nfs server is not +responding for some time, otherwise it will try forever. The time can be +specified with +.BR timeo=time . +For more information look at +.IR nfs (5). + +This option is useful if your nfs server sometimes doesn't respond or will +be rebooted while some process tries to get a file from the server. +.TP .BI sb= value For the .I ext2 @@ -459,8 +483,9 @@ The argument following the is used to indicate the file system type. The file system types which are currently supported are listed in .IR linux/fs/filesystems.c : -.IR minux ", " ext ", " ext2 ", " xiafs ", " msdos ", " hpfs , -.IR proc ", " nfs ", " iso9660 ", " sysv ", " xenix ", " coherent . +.IR minix ", " ext ", " ext2 ", " xiafs ", " msdos ", " umsdos , +.IR hpfs ", " proc ", " nfs ", " iso9660 ", " smbfs , +.IR sysv ", " xenix ", " coherent . Note that that last three are equivalent and that "xenix" and "coherent" will be removed at some point in the future \(em use "sysv" instead. @@ -468,13 +493,16 @@ The type .I minix is the default. If no .B \-t -option is given, the superblock is probed for the filesystem type (minix, -ext, ext2, xia are supported). If this probe fails and +option is given, or if the "auto" type is specified, the superblock is +probed for the filesystem type (minix, ext, ext2, xia are supported). If +this probe fails and .I /proc/filesystems exists, then all of the filesystems listed will be tried, .I except for those that are labeled "nodev" (e.g., "proc" and "nfs"). +Note that the "auto" type may be useful for user-mounted floppies. + For example, the .B mount command: @@ -503,9 +531,9 @@ Mount without writing in .B Umount removes the .I special -device grafted at point -.I node -from file system tree. +device, or the device grafted at point +.IR node , +from the file system tree. Options for the .B umount @@ -524,6 +552,15 @@ the file system types on which no action should be taken. (See example above for the .B mount command.) +.TP +.B \-V +Print version and exit. +.TP +.B \-h +Print help message and exit. +.TP +.B \-v +Verbose mode. .SH FILES .I /etc/fstab @@ -535,7 +572,8 @@ lock file .I /etc/mtab.tmp temporary file .SH "SEE ALSO" -.BR mount "(2), " umount "(2), " fstab "(5), " swapon (8) +.BR mount "(2), " umount "(2), " fstab "(5), " swapon "(8), " nfs (5), +.BR mountd "(8), " nfsd (8) .SH BUGS It is possible for a corrupted file system to cause a crash. .PP |