11/3/71 | SYS_MOUNT (II) |
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NAME |
mount -- mount file system |
SYNOPSIS |
sys mount; special; name / mount = 21.; not in assembler |
DESCRIPTION |
mount announces to the system that a removable file system has beenmounted on special file special; from now on, references to file name |
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| will refer to the root file on the newly mounted file system. Specialand name are pointers to null--terminated strings containing the appropriate path names. Name must exist already. If it had useful contents, they areinaccessible while the file system is mounted. |
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| Almost always, name should be a directory so that an entire filesystem, not just one file, may exist on the removable device. |
FILES |
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SEE_ALSO |
umount |
DIAGNOSTICS |
Error bit (c--bit) set if special is inaccessible or dir does notexist. |
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BUGS |
At most one removable device can be mounted at a time. The use ofthis call should be restricted to the super--user. |
OWNER |
ken, dmr |
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