MNTTAB(4) — HP-UX

NAME

mnttab − mounted file system table

SYNOPSIS

#include <mnttab.h>

DESCRIPTION

Mnttab resides in directory /etc and contains a table of devices, mounted by the mount[HFS](1M) command. The file contains a line of information for each mounted filesystem, structurally identical to the contents of /etc/checklist, described in checklist(4).

There are a number of lines of the form:

special_file_name dir type opts freq passno mount_time

For example:

/dev/dsk/c0d0s0 / hfs rw 0 1 537851723

The file is accessed by programs using getmntent(3X), and by the system administrator using a text editor.

Mount_time contains the time the file system was mounted using mount[HFS](1M). The value is the number of seconds since 00:00:00 GMT, January 1, 1970; see time(2).

The maximum number of hfs entries in mnttab is based on the system parameter NMOUNT located in <mnttab.h>, which defines the number of allowable mounted special files.

WARNINGS

The table is present only for programs to return information about the mounted file systems. It does not matter to mount if there are duplicated entries nor to umount if a name cannot be found.

DEPENDENCIES

Series 500, 800
The table of devices found in the /etc/mnttab binary file is structured in the following manner:

#include <sys/types.h>

struct mnttab {

char	mt_dev[MNTLEN];	*/ device name /*
char	mt_filsys[MNTLEN];	*/ mount point directory /*
short	mt_ro_flg;	*/ read-only flag /*
time_t	mt_time;	*/ date last mounted /*

};

AUTHOR

Mnttab was developed by the University of California, Berkeley, Sun Microsystems, Inc., and HP.

FILES

/etc/mnttab

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