    MOUNT(VIII)                  10/31/73                 MOUNT(VIII)

    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 ex-
         plicit 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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