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authorjoerg <joerg@FreeBSD.org>1997-08-24 17:51:12 +0000
committerjoerg <joerg@FreeBSD.org>1997-08-24 17:51:12 +0000
commita90ba4da61f444336378b0013025e5307d9368fc (patch)
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parent465fd5fe19821f82513f369a81f0d2d17a1d24ee (diff)
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Mention the various reasons for messages of the form:
xxxxx filesystem is not available Inspired by: PR 3311, and a following discussion with Mikhail
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin')
-rw-r--r--sbin/mount/mount.818
-rw-r--r--sbin/mount_ifs/mount.818
2 files changed, 34 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/mount/mount.8 b/sbin/mount/mount.8
index c9ef374..ca26529 100644
--- a/sbin/mount/mount.8
+++ b/sbin/mount/mount.8
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" @(#)mount.8 8.8 (Berkeley) 6/16/94
-.\" $Id: mount.8,v 1.15 1997/03/11 12:27:58 peter Exp $
+.\" $Id: mount.8,v 1.16 1997/08/24 02:27:08 steve Exp $
.\"
.Dd June 16, 1994
.Dt MOUNT 8
@@ -282,6 +282,22 @@ The file system object is to be read and write.
The options specific to NFS filesystems are described in the
.Xr mount_nfs 8
manual page.
+.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
+Various, most of them are self-explanatory.
+.Pp
+.Dl XXXXX filesystem is not available
+.Pp
+The kernel doesn't support the respective filesystem type. Note that
+support for a particular filesystem might be provided either on a static
+(kernel compile-time), or dynamic basis (loaded as a kernel module by
+.Xr modload 8 ).
+Normally,
+.Nm
+or its subprocesses attempt to dynamically load a filesystem module if
+it hasn't been configured statically, using
+.Xr vfsload 3 .
+In this case, the above error message can also mean that you didn't
+have permission to load the module.
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /etc/fstab -compact
.It Pa /etc/fstab
diff --git a/sbin/mount_ifs/mount.8 b/sbin/mount_ifs/mount.8
index c9ef374..ca26529 100644
--- a/sbin/mount_ifs/mount.8
+++ b/sbin/mount_ifs/mount.8
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" @(#)mount.8 8.8 (Berkeley) 6/16/94
-.\" $Id: mount.8,v 1.15 1997/03/11 12:27:58 peter Exp $
+.\" $Id: mount.8,v 1.16 1997/08/24 02:27:08 steve Exp $
.\"
.Dd June 16, 1994
.Dt MOUNT 8
@@ -282,6 +282,22 @@ The file system object is to be read and write.
The options specific to NFS filesystems are described in the
.Xr mount_nfs 8
manual page.
+.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
+Various, most of them are self-explanatory.
+.Pp
+.Dl XXXXX filesystem is not available
+.Pp
+The kernel doesn't support the respective filesystem type. Note that
+support for a particular filesystem might be provided either on a static
+(kernel compile-time), or dynamic basis (loaded as a kernel module by
+.Xr modload 8 ).
+Normally,
+.Nm
+or its subprocesses attempt to dynamically load a filesystem module if
+it hasn't been configured statically, using
+.Xr vfsload 3 .
+In this case, the above error message can also mean that you didn't
+have permission to load the module.
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /etc/fstab -compact
.It Pa /etc/fstab
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