NAME

mount_pcfs − mount pcfs file systems

SYNOPSIS

mount −F pcfs [ generic_options ] [ −o FSType-specific_options ] special| mount_point
mount −F pcfs [ generic_options ] [ −o FSType-specific_options ] special mount_point

DESCRIPTION

mount attaches an MS-DOS file system (pcfs) to the file system hierarchy at the mount_point, which is the pathname of a directory. If mount_point has any contents prior to the mount operation, these are hidden until the file system is unmounted. 

If mount is invoked with special or mount_point as the only arguments, mount will search /etc/vfstab to fill in the missing arguments, including the FSType-specific_options; see mount(1M) for more details. 

The special argument can be one of two special device file types:

• A floppy disk, such as /dev/diskette0 or /dev/diskette1. 

• A DOS logical drive on a hard disk expressed as device-name:logical-drive , where device-name specifies the special block device-file for the whole disk and logical-drive is either a drive letter (c through z) or a drive number (1 through 24).  Examples are /dev/dsk/c0t0d0p0:c and /dev/dsk/c0t0d0p0:1. 

The special device file type must have a formatted MS-DOS file system with either a 12-bit or a 16-bit File Allocation Table.  Regular or BIG-DOS (greater than 32 megabytes in size) partitions can be mounted. 

OPTIONS

generic_options See mount(1M) for the list of supported options. 

−o Specify pcfs file system specific options.  The following options are available:

rw|ro Mount the file system read/write or read-only.  The default is rw. 

foldcase|nofoldcase
Force uppercase characters in filenames to lowercase when reading them from the filesystem. This is for compatibility with the previous behavior of pcfs.  The default is nofoldcase. 

FILES

/etc/mnttab table of mounted file systems

/etc/vfstab list of default parameters for each file system

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

SEE ALSO

mount(1M), mountall(1M), mount(2), mnttab(4), vfstab(4), attributes(5), pcfs(7FS)

NOTES

If the directory on which a file system is to be mounted is a symbolic link, the file system is mounted on the directory to which the symbolic link refers, rather than on top of the symbolic link itself. 

SunOS 5.6  —  Last change: 10 Dec 1996