NAME

fdmount− table describing placement of fast-disk filesystems

SYNOPSIS

/etc/fdmount

DESCRIPTION

Multiple Fast-Disk filesystems may be connected to one host computer.  Each filesystem resides in its own Fast-Disk partition (see mx(4)), and is self-contained.  The file /etc/fdmount contains information that governs the composition of the single filesystem tree as visible to application software employing libfd subroutines to access the Fast-Disk filesystem. 

/etc/fdmount is an ASCII text file, which may be created by any text editor.  Lines within the file beginning with a ‘#’ character are regarded as comments and ignored.  All other lines must have the syntax:

devicename:mountpoint

devicename is the name of a Fast-Disk partition in /dev, such as /dev/rmx0b.  mountpoint is a Fast-Disk filesystem pathname specifying the point in the directory tree where the files in the partition will appear. 

Subroutines are available for reading /etc/fdmount (see fd_getfsent(3H)).

If the environment variable FDMOUNT is defined, libfd ignores /etc/fdmount and gets its information from the environment variable instead.  See fdmount(7).

EXAMPLES

A host with one Fast-Disk volume:

/dev/rmx0b:/

A host with three Fast-Disk volumes:

/dev/rmx0b:/

/dev/rmx1b:/abc

/dev/rmx2b:/def

In the above example, any pathname beginning with /abc/ references a file or directory on Fast-Disk Volume 1 (/dev/rmx1b), any pathname beginning with /def/ references Volume 2, and all other pathnames reference Volume 0. 

SEE ALSO

fd_getfsent(3H), libfd(3H), mx(4), fd(5), fdmount(7), fdck(8), fdmkfs(8)

Release β  —  Last change: 10/12/88