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NAME
     mount - mount file system

SYNOPSIS
     /etc/mount special file [ -r ]

DESCRIPTION
     Mount announces to the system that a removable file system
     is present on the device corresponding to special file spe-
     cial (which must refer to a disk or possibly DECtape).  The
     file must exist already; it becomes the name of the root of
     the newly mounted file system.

     Mount maintains a table of mounted devices; if invoked with-
     out an argument it prints the table.

     The optional last argument indicates that the file is to be
     mounted read-only.  Physically write-protected and magnetic
     tape file systems must be mounted in this way or errors will
     occur when access times are updated, whether or not any
     explicit write is attempted.

SEE ALSO
     mount (II), mtab (V), umount (VIII)

BUGS
     Mounting file systems full of garbage will crash the system.

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