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.Dd December 11, 1993
.Dt MOUNT 2
.Os BSD 4
.Sh NAME
.Nm mount ,
.Nm unmount
.Nd mount or dismount a file system
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Fd #include <sys/param.h>
.Fd #include <sys/mount.h>
.Ft int
.Fn mount "const char *type" "const char *dir" "int flags" "void *data"
.Ft int
.Fn unmount "const char *dir" "int flags"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Fn mount
function grafts
a file system object onto the system file tree
at the point
.Ar dir .
The argument
.Ar data
describes the file system object to be mounted.
The argument
.Ar type
tells the kernel how to interpret
.Ar data
(See
.Ar type
below).
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 file system is unmounted.
.Pp
The following
.Ar flags
may be specified to
suppress default semantics which affect file system access.
.Bl -tag -width MNT_SYNCHRONOUS
.It Dv MNT_RDONLY
The file system should be treated as read-only;
Even the super-user may not write on it.
.It Dv MNT_NOEXEC
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_NODEV
Do not interpret special files on the file system.
.It Dv MNT_SYNCHRONOUS
All I/O to the file system should be done synchronously.
.El
.Pp
The flag
.Dv MNT_UPDATE
indicates that the mount command is being applied 
to an already mounted file system.
This allows the mount flags to be changed without requiring
that the file system be unmounted and remounted.
Some file systems may not allow all flags to be changed.
For example,
most file systems will not allow a change from read-write to read-only.
.Pp
The
.Fa type
argument defines the type of the file system.
The types of file systems known to the system are defined in
.Aq Pa sys/mount.h .
.Fa Data
is a pointer to a structure that contains the type
specific arguments to mount.
The currently supported types of file systems and
their type specific data are:
.Pp
.Dv MOUNT_FFS
.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
struct ufs_args {
      char	*fspec;  /* Block special file to mount */
      int	exflags; /* export related flags */
      uid_t	exroot;  /* mapping for root uid */
};
.Ed
.Pp
.Dv MOUNT_NFS
.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
struct nfs_args {
      struct sockaddr_in *addr; /* file server address */
      nfsv2fh_t *fh;       /* File handle to be mounted */
      int       flags;     /* flags */
      int       wsize;     /* write size in bytes */
      int       rsize;     /* read size in bytes */
      int       timeo;     /* initial timeout 0.1 secs */
      int       retrans;   /* times to retry send */
      char      *hostname; /* server's name */
};
.Ed
.Pp
.Dv MOUNT_MFS
.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
struct mfs_args {
      char	*name;	/* name of backing process */
      caddr_t	base;	/* base address of the file system */
      u_long	size;	/* size of the file system */
};
.Ed
.Pp
The
.Fn umount
function call disassociates the file system from the specified
mount point
.Fa dir .
.Pp
The
.Fa flags
argument may specify
.Dv MNT_FORCE
to specify that the file system should be forcibly unmounted 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 file system is later remounted.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
The
.Fn mount
returns the value 0 if the mount was successful, otherwise -1 is returned
and the variable
.Va errno
is set to indicate the error.
.Pp
.Nm Umount
returns the value 0 if the umount succeeded; otherwise -1 is returned
and the variable
.Va errno
is set to indicate the error.
.Sh ERRORS
.Fn Mount
will fail when one of the following occurs:
.Bl -tag -width Er
.It Bq Er EPERM
The caller is not the super-user.
.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
A component of a pathname exceeded 
.Dv {NAME_MAX}
characters, or an entire path name exceeded 
.Dv {PATH_MAX}
characters.
.It Bq Er ELOOP
Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating a pathname.
.It Bq Er ENOENT
A component of
.Fa dir
does not exist.
.It Bq Er ENOTDIR
A component of
.Ar name
is not a directory,
or a path prefix of
.Ar special
is not a directory.
.It Bq Er EBUSY
Another process currently holds a reference to
.Fa dir .
.It Bq Er EFAULT
.Fa Dir
points outside the process's allocated address space.
.El
.Pp
The following errors can occur for a
.Em ufs
file system mount:
.Bl -tag -width Er
.It Bq Er ENODEV
A component of ufs_args
.Ar fspec
does not exist.
.It Bq Er ENOTBLK
.Ar Fspec
is not a block device.
.It Bq Er ENXIO
The major device number of 
.Ar fspec
is out of range (this indicates no device driver exists
for the associated hardware).
.It Bq Er EBUSY
.Ar Fspec
is already mounted.
.It Bq Er EMFILE
No space remains in the mount table.
.It Bq Er EINVAL
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 file system.
.It Bq Er EIO
An I/O error occurred while reading the super block or
cylinder group information.
.It Bq Er EFAULT
.Ar Fspec
points outside the process's allocated address space.
.El
.Pp
The following errors can occur for a
.Em nfs
file system mount:
.Bl -tag -width Er
.It Bq Er ETIMEDOUT
.Em Nfs
timed out trying to contact the server.
.It Bq Er EFAULT
Some part of the information described by nfs_args
points outside the process's allocated address space.
.El
.Pp
The following errors can occur for a
.Em mfs
file system mount:
.Bl -tag -width Er
.It Bq Er EMFILE
No space remains in the mount table.
.It Bq Er EINVAL
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 file system.
.It Bq Er EIO
A paging error occurred while reading the super block or
cylinder group information.
.It Bq Er EFAULT
.Em Name
points outside the process's allocated address space.
.El
.Pp
.Nm Umount
may fail with one of the following errors:
.Bl -tag -width Er
.It Bq Er EPERM
The caller is not the super-user.
.It Bq Er ENOTDIR
A component of the path is not a directory.
.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
A component of a pathname exceeded 
.Dv {NAME_MAX}
characters, or an entire path name exceeded 
.Dv {PATH_MAX}
characters.
.It Bq Er ELOOP
Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
.It Bq Er EINVAL
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 file system.
.It Bq Er EIO
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.
.El
.Pp
A
.Em ufs
or
.Em mfs
mount can also fail if the maximum number of file systems are currently
mounted.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr mount 8 ,
.Xr umount 8 ,
.Xr mfs 8
.Sh BUGS
Some of the error codes need translation to more obvious messages.
.Sh HISTORY
.Fn Mount
and
.Fn umount
function calls appeared in 
.At v6 .