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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/sys/mount.2')
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1 files changed, 34 insertions, 34 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/mount.2 b/lib/libc/sys/mount.2 index dc1b45b..b5f92f2 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/mount.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/mount.2 @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ .Sh NAME .Nm mount , .Nm unmount -.Nd mount or dismount a filesystem +.Nd mount or dismount a file system .Sh LIBRARY .Lb libc .Sh SYNOPSIS @@ -52,12 +52,12 @@ The .Fn mount function grafts -a filesystem object onto the system file tree +a file system object onto the system file tree at the point .Ar dir . The argument .Ar data -describes the filesystem object to be mounted. +describes the file system object to be mounted. The argument .Ar type tells the kernel how to interpret @@ -65,41 +65,41 @@ tells the kernel how to interpret (See .Ar type below). -The contents of the filesystem +The contents of the file system become available through the new mount point .Ar dir . Any files in .Ar dir at the time of a successful mount are swept under the carpet so to speak, and -are unavailable until the filesystem is unmounted. +are unavailable until the file system is unmounted. .Pp The following .Ar flags may be specified to -suppress default semantics which affect filesystem access. +suppress default semantics which affect file system access. .Bl -tag -width MNT_SYNCHRONOUS .It Dv MNT_RDONLY -The filesystem should be treated as read-only; +The file system should be treated as read-only; Even the super-user may not write on it. Specifying MNT_UPDATE without this option will upgrade -a read-only filesystem to read/write. +a read-only file system to read/write. .It Dv MNT_NOEXEC -Do not allow files to be executed from the filesystem. +Do not allow files to be executed from the file system. .It Dv MNT_NOSUID Do not honor setuid or setgid bits on files when executing them. .It Dv MNT_NOATIME Disable update of file access times. .It Dv MNT_NODEV -Do not interpret special files on the filesystem. +Do not interpret special files on the file system. .It Dv MNT_SUIDDIR Directories with the SUID bit set chown new files to their own owner. .It Dv MNT_SYNCHRONOUS -All I/O to the filesystem should be done synchronously. +All I/O to the file system should be done synchronously. .It Dv MNT_ASYNC -All I/O to the filesystem should be done asynchronously. +All I/O to the file system should be done asynchronously. .It Dv MNT_FORCE -Force a read-write mount even if the filesystem appears to be unclean. +Force a read-write mount even if the file system appears to be unclean. Dangerous. .It Dv MNT_NOCLUSTERR Disable read clustering. @@ -110,41 +110,41 @@ Disable write clustering. The flag .Dv MNT_UPDATE indicates that the mount command is being applied -to an already mounted filesystem. +to an already mounted file system. This allows the mount flags to be changed without requiring -that the filesystem be unmounted and remounted. -Some filesystems may not allow all flags to be changed. +that the file system be unmounted and remounted. +Some file systems may not allow all flags to be changed. For example, -many filesystems will not allow a change from read-write to read-only. +many file systems will not allow a change from read-write to read-only. .Pp The flag .Dv MNT_RELOAD causes the vfs subsystem to update its data structures pertaining to -the specified already mounted filesystem. +the specified already mounted file system. .Pp The .Fa type -argument names the filesystem. -The types of filesystems known to the system can be obtained with +argument names the file system. +The types of file systems known to the system can be obtained with .Xr lsvfs 1 . .Pp .Fa Data is a pointer to a structure that contains the type specific arguments to mount. The format for these argument structures is described in the -manual page for each filesystem. -By convention filesystem manual pages are named -by prefixing ``mount_'' to the name of the filesystem as returned by +manual page for each file system. +By convention file system manual pages are named +by prefixing ``mount_'' to the name of the file system as returned by .Xr lsvfs 1 . Thus the .Nm NFS -filesystem is described by the +file system is described by the .Xr mount_nfs 8 manual page. .Pp The .Fn unmount -function call disassociates the filesystem from the specified +function call disassociates the file system from the specified mount point .Fa dir . .Pp @@ -152,12 +152,12 @@ The .Fa flags argument may specify .Dv MNT_FORCE -to specify that the filesystem should be forcibly unmounted or made read-only +to specify that the file system should be forcibly unmounted or made read-only (if MNT_UPDATE and MNT_RDONLY are also specified) even if files are still active. Active special devices continue to work, but any further accesses to any other active files result in errors -even if the filesystem is later remounted. +even if the file system is later remounted. .Pp The .Dv MNT_SUIDDIR @@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ points outside the process's allocated address space. .Pp The following errors can occur for a .Em ufs -filesystem mount: +file system mount: .Bl -tag -width Er .It Bq Er ENODEV A component of ufs_args @@ -223,11 +223,11 @@ is already mounted. .It Bq Er EMFILE No space remains in the mount table. .It Bq Er EINVAL -The super block for the filesystem had a bad magic +The super block for the file system had a bad magic number or an out of range block size. .It Bq Er ENOMEM Not enough memory was available to read the cylinder -group information for the filesystem. +group information for the file system. .It Bq Er EIO An I/O error occurred while reading the super block or cylinder group information. @@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ points outside the process's allocated address space. .Pp The following errors can occur for a .Em nfs -filesystem mount: +file system mount: .Bl -tag -width Er .It Bq Er ETIMEDOUT .Em Nfs @@ -265,9 +265,9 @@ Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname. The requested directory is not in the mount table. .It Bq Er EBUSY A process is holding a reference to a file located -on the filesystem. +on the file system. .It Bq Er EIO -An I/O error occurred while writing cached filesystem information. +An I/O error occurred while writing cached file system information. .It Bq Er EFAULT .Fa Dir points outside the process's allocated address space. @@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ points outside the process's allocated address space. .Pp A .Em ufs -mount can also fail if the maximum number of filesystems are currently +mount can also fail if the maximum number of file systems are currently mounted. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr lsvfs 1 , |
