(I) NAME mount -- mount file system

SYNOPSIS mount special dir

DESCRIPTION

mount announces to the system that a removable file system has been mounted on the device corresponding to special file special. Directory dir (which must exist already) becomes the name of the root of the newly mounted file system.

FILES

SEE ALSO umount

DIAGNOSTICS "?", if the special file is already in use, cannot be read, or if dir does not exist.

BUGS Should be usable only by the super-user.

OWNER ken, dmr

cLIeNUX comment
This manpage was written by Ken Thompson, who wrote UNIX and ed, and Dennis Ritchie, who wrote C with Brian Kernighan, and helped Thompson re-write UNIX in C. The copyright of the original of this file is held by Lucent Technologies. dmr said I could use it here. dmr's personal webpage has all the 1971 docs and many other rich unix and C resources.