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Name

mount_pcfs - mount pcfs file systems

Synopsis

mount -F pcfs [ generic_options ] [ -o FSType-specific_options ] special|mount_point
mount -F pcfs [ generic_options ] [ -o FSType-specific_options ] special mount_point

Availability

SUNWesu

Description

mount attaches an MS-DOS file system (pcfs) to the file system hierarchy at the mount_point, which is the pathname of a directory. If mount_point has any contents prior to the mount operation, these are hidden until the file system is unmounted.

If mount is invoked with special or mount_point as the only arguments, mount will search /etc/vfstab to fill in the missing arguments, including the FSType-specific_options; see mount(1M) for more details.

The special argument can be one of two special device file types:

The special device file type must have a formatted MS-DOS file system with either a 12-bit or a 16-bit File Allocation Table. Regular or BIG-DOS (greater than 32 megabytes in size) partitions can be mounted.

Options

generic_options
See mount(1M) for the list of supported options.
-o
Specify pcfs file system specific options. If invalid options are specified, a warning message is printed and the invalid options are ignored. The following options are available:
rw|ro
Mount the file system read/write or read-only. The default is rw.

Files

/etc/mnttab
table of mounted file systems
/etc/vfstab
list of default parameters for each file system

See Also

mount(1M) , mountall(1M) , mount(2) , mnttab(4) , vfstab(4) , pcfs(7FS)

Notes

If the directory on which a file system is to be mounted is a symbolic link, the file system is mounted on the directory to which the symbolic link refers, rather than on top of the symbolic link itself.

pcfs is currently not NFS mountable. Trying to mount a pcfs file system through NFS will fail with an EACCES error.

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