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mount(2)							      mount(2)

Name
       mount, umount - mount or unmount a file system

Syntax
       #include <sys/types.h>
       #include <sys/fs_types.h>

       mount(special, name, rwflag, type, options)
       char *special, *name;
       int rwflag, type;
       char *options;

       umount(dev)
       dev_t dev;

Description
       The  system  call  announces  to the system that a file system has been
       mounted on special file, special.  References to file name refer to the
       root file on the newly mounted file system.

       The  special argument is a pointer to a null-terminated string contain‐
       ing the pathname of the file system being mounted.

       The name argument is a pointer to a null-terminated  string  containing
       the  pathname  of  the root file on the newly mounted file system.  The
       name must already exist and must be a directory.	 Its old contents  are
       inaccessible while the file system is mounted.

       The rwflag argument is used to determine whether the file system can be
       written on; if it is 0, the file system is writable,  if	 nonzero,  the
       file  system  is write-protected.  Physically write-protected disks and
       magnetic tape file systems must be mounted read-only.   The  call  also
       detects	devices	 that are offline at mount time and returns the appro‐
       priate error.

       The type argument  identifies  the  file	 system	 type  that  is	 being
       mounted.	 The file system types are defined in the <fs_types.h> file.

       The  options  argument specifies certain parameters that can be used to
       define how the file system is to be mounted.

       The dev argument to is the device id and	 identifies  the  device  that
       contains the file system that is to be unmounted.

Environment
   System V
       The  type  and  the options arguments are not available in the System V
       environment.

       Programs compiled in the System V environment cause and to set errno to
       ENOTDIR,	 instead  of  EPERM  (illegal char in directory name) or EROFS
       (directory on read  only	 filesystem). If the process is not the	 supe‐
       ruser,  errno  is set to EPERM, instead of ENODEV, and if the file does
       not exist, errno is set to ENOENT, instead of ENODEV.

       Also in the System V environment, only the low-order bit of  rwflag  is
       checked to determine write permission.

       In the System V environment the syntax for is as follows:
	    umount(name) char *name;

       The argument to specifies the file system to be unmounted.  In System V
       mode, the argument is the of the device that contains the  file	system
       that is to be unmounted; in all other modes, it is the device id.

Return Values
       The  system call returns 0 upon successful completion of a mount opera‐
       tion; it returns -1 if the mount operation fails.

       The system call announces to the system that the device dev  no	longer
       contains	 a file system.	 The associated directory reverts to its ordi‐
       nary interpretation.

       The system call returns 0 if the dismount operation succeeds; -1 if  it
       fails.

Diagnostics
       The call fails under the following conditions:

       [EPERM]	      The caller is not the superuser.

       [ENODEV]	      A	 component  of special does not exist or the device is
		      offline.

       [ENOTBLK]      The special is not a block device.

       [ENXIO]	      The major device number  of  special  is	out  of	 range
		      (indicating that no device driver exists for the associ‐
		      ated hardware).

       [EINVAL]	      The file system type is out of range.

       [EINVAL]	      The super block for the file system had a bad magic num‐
		      ber or an out-or-range block size.

       [EINVAL]	      The  file system has not been unmounted cleanly, and the
		      force option has not been set.

       [ENOTDIR]      A component of name is not a directory, or a path prefix
		      of special is already mounted.

       [EBUSY]	      Another  process currently holds a reference to name, or
		      special is already mounted.

       [ENAMETOOLONG] A component of either pathname exceeded 255  characters,
		      or  the  entire  length of either pathname exceeded 1023
		      characters.

       [ELOOP]	      Too many symbolic links were encountered in  translating
		      either pathname.

       [ENOENT]	      A component of name does not exist.

       [EMFILE]	      No space remains in the mount table.

       [ENOMEM]	      Not  enough  memory  was	available to read the cylinder
		      group information for the file system.

       [EIO]	      An I/O error occurred while reading the super  block  or
		      cylinder group information.

       [EFAULT]	      The  special  or name points outside the process's allo‐
		      cated address space space.

       [EROFS]	      The special is a write-locked device and	the  user  did
		      not set the rwflag.

       The command fails under the following conditions:

       [EPERM]	      The caller is not the superuser.

       [EINVAL]	      The requested device is not in the mount table.

       [EBUSY]	      A	 process  is  holding a reference to a file located on
		      the file system.

       [EIO]	      An I/O error occurred while writing the super  block  or
		      other cached file system information.

       [EREMOTE]      An  attempt  has	been  made to mount an NFS remote file
		      system that is not local to the specified server.	  This
		      cannot occur except in response to a failed

       [ETIMEDOUT]    A	 connect  request  or  remote  file  operation	failed
		      because the connected party  did	not  properly  respond
		      after a period of time that is dependent on the communi‐
		      cations protocol.

See Also
       mount(2nfs), mount(8), umount(8)

								      mount(2)
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