Name
mount
Synopsis
mount [options] [special-device] [directory]
Description
System administration command. Mount a file structure. mount announces to the system that a removable file structure is present on special-device. The file structure is mounted on directory, which must already exist and should be empty; it then becomes the name of the root of the newly mounted file structure. If mount is invoked with no arguments, it displays the name of each mounted device, the directory on which it is mounted, whether the file structure is read-only, and the date it was mounted. Only a privileged user can use the mount command.
Options
- -a
Mount all filesystems listed in /etc/fstab. Note: this is the only option that cannot take a special-device or node argument.
- -f
Fake mount. Go through the motions of checking the device and directory, but do not actually mount the filesystem.
- -n
Do not record the mount in /etc/mtab.
- -o option
Note: this is the only option to mount that requires a special-device or node argument. Qualify the mount with one of the specified options:
- async
Read input and output to the device asynchronously.
- auto
Allow mounting with the -a option.
- defaults
Use all options’ default values (async, auto, dev, exec, nouser, rw, suid).
- dev
Interpret any special devices that exist on the filesystem.
- exec
Allow binaries to be executed.
- noauto
Do not allow mounting via the -a option.
- nodev
Do not interpret any special devices that exist on the filesystem.
- noexec
Do not allow the ...
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