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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-15 19:41:07 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-15 19:41:07 +0000
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@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
.\" 2008-10-06, mtk: move umount*() material into separate umount.2 page.
.\" 2008-10-06, mtk: Add discussion of namespaces.
.\"
-.TH mount 2 2023-04-03 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01"
+.TH mount 2 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7"
.SH NAME
mount \- mount filesystem
.SH LIBRARY
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Standard C library
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B "#include <sys/mount.h>"
-.PP
+.P
.BI "int mount(const char *" source ", const char *" target ,
.BI " const char *" filesystemtype ", unsigned long " mountflags ,
.BI " const void *_Nullable " data );
@@ -40,11 +40,11 @@ but can also be the pathname of a directory or file,
or a dummy string) to the location (a directory or file)
specified by the pathname in
.IR target .
-.PP
+.P
Appropriate privilege (Linux: the
.B CAP_SYS_ADMIN
capability) is required to mount filesystems.
-.PP
+.P
Values for the
.I filesystemtype
argument supported by the kernel are listed in
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ argument supported by the kernel are listed in
"tmpfs", "cgroup", "proc", "mqueue", "nfs", "cifs", "iso9660").
Further types may become available when the appropriate modules
are loaded.
-.PP
+.P
The
.I data
argument is interpreted by the different filesystems.
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ See
.BR mount (8)
for details of the options available for each filesystem type.
This argument may be specified as NULL, if there are no options.
-.PP
+.P
A call to
.BR mount ()
performs one of a number of general types of operation,
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ includes
Create a new mount:
.I mountflags
includes none of the above flags.
-.PP
+.P
Each of these operations is detailed later in this page.
Further flags may be specified in
.I mountflags
@@ -284,13 +284,13 @@ and
and
.BR realpath (3)
all still work properly.
-.PP
+.P
From Linux 2.4 onward, some of the above flags are
settable on a per-mount basis,
while others apply to the superblock of the mounted filesystem,
meaning that all mounts of the same filesystem share those flags.
(Previously, all of the flags were per-superblock.)
-.PP
+.P
The per-mount-point flags are as follows:
.IP \[bu] 3
Since Linux 2.4:
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ and
.IP \[bu]
Additionally, since Linux 2.6.20:
.BR MS_RELATIME .
-.PP
+.P
The following flags are per-superblock:
.BR MS_DIRSYNC ,
.BR MS_LAZYTIME ,
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ Subsequently, the settings of the flags can be changed
via a remount operation (see below).
Such changes will be visible via all mounts associated
with the filesystem.
-.PP
+.P
Since Linux 2.6.16,
.B MS_RDONLY
can be set or cleared on a per-mount-point basis as well as on
@@ -342,13 +342,13 @@ of an existing mount without having to unmount and remount the filesystem.
should be the same value specified in the initial
.BR mount ()
call.
-.PP
+.P
The
.I source
and
.I filesystemtype
arguments are ignored.
-.PP
+.P
The
.I mountflags
and
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ and
arguments should match the values used in the original
.BR mount ()
call, except for those parameters that are being deliberately changed.
-.PP
+.P
The following
.I mountflags
can be changed:
@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ flags during a remount are silently ignored.
Note that changes to per-superblock flags are visible via
all mounts of the associated filesystem
(because the per-superblock flags are shared by all mounts).
-.PP
+.P
Since Linux 3.17,
.\" commit ffbc6f0ead47fa5a1dc9642b0331cb75c20a640e
if none of
@@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ is specified in
then the remount operation preserves the existing values of these flags
(rather than defaulting to
.BR MS_RELATIME ).
-.PP
+.P
Since Linux 2.6.26, the
.B MS_REMOUNT
flag can be used with
@@ -424,13 +424,13 @@ flag on a mount without changing the underlying filesystem.
Specifying
.I mountflags
as:
-.PP
+.P
.in +4n
.EX
MS_REMOUNT | MS_BIND | MS_RDONLY
.EE
.in
-.PP
+.P
will make access through this mountpoint read-only, without affecting
other mounts.
.\"
@@ -447,13 +447,13 @@ another point within the single directory hierarchy.
Bind mounts may cross filesystem boundaries and span
.BR chroot (2)
jails.
-.PP
+.P
The
.I filesystemtype
and
.I data
arguments are ignored.
-.PP
+.P
The remaining bits (other than
.BR MS_REC ,
described below) in the
@@ -463,7 +463,7 @@ argument are also ignored.
the underlying mount.)
However, see the discussion of remounting above,
for a method of making an existing bind mount read-only.
-.PP
+.P
By default, when a directory is bind mounted,
only that directory is mounted;
if there are any submounts under the directory tree,
@@ -490,21 +490,21 @@ or
(all available since Linux 2.6.15),
then the propagation type of an existing mount is changed.
If more than one of these flags is specified, an error results.
-.PP
+.P
The only other flags that can be specified while changing
the propagation type are
.B MS_REC
(described below) and
.B MS_SILENT
(which is ignored).
-.PP
+.P
The
.IR source ,
.IR filesystemtype ,
and
.I data
arguments are ignored.
-.PP
+.P
The meanings of the propagation type flags are as follows:
.TP
.B MS_SHARED
@@ -550,7 +550,7 @@ flags) is performed on a directory subtree,
any unbindable mounts within the subtree are automatically pruned
(i.e., not replicated)
when replicating that subtree to produce the target subtree.
-.PP
+.P
By default, changing the propagation type affects only the
.I target
mount.
@@ -561,7 +561,7 @@ flag is also specified in
then the propagation type of all mounts under
.I target
is also changed.
-.PP
+.P
For further details regarding mount propagation types
(including the default propagation type assigned to new mounts), see
.BR mount_namespaces (7).
@@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ specifies an existing mount and
.I target
specifies the new location to which that mount is to be relocated.
The move is atomic: at no point is the subtree unmounted.
-.PP
+.P
The remaining bits in the
.I mountflags
argument are ignored, as are the
@@ -606,7 +606,7 @@ performs its default action: creating a new mount.
specifies the source for the new mount, and
.I target
specifies the directory at which to create the mount point.
-.PP
+.P
The
.I filesystemtype
and
@@ -847,12 +847,12 @@ The definitions of
and
.B MS_UNBINDABLE
were added to glibc headers in glibc 2.12.
-.PP
+.P
Since Linux 2.4 a single filesystem can be mounted at
multiple mount points, and multiple mounts can be stacked
on the same mount point.
.\" Multiple mounts on same mount point: since Linux 2.3.99pre7.
-.PP
+.P
The
.I mountflags
argument may have the magic number 0xC0ED (\fBMS_MGC_VAL\fP)
@@ -864,7 +864,7 @@ Specifying
.B MS_MGC_VAL
was required before Linux 2.4,
but since Linux 2.4 is no longer required and is ignored if specified.
-.PP
+.P
The original
.B MS_SYNC
flag was renamed
@@ -873,7 +873,7 @@ in 1.1.69
when a different
.B MS_SYNC
was added to \fI<mman.h>\fP.
-.PP
+.P
Before Linux 2.4 an attempt to execute a set-user-ID or set-group-ID program
on a filesystem mounted with
.B MS_NOSUID
@@ -894,13 +894,13 @@ and changes to the namespace (i.e., mounts and unmounts) by one process
are visible to all other processes sharing the same namespace.
(The pre-2.4.19 Linux situation can be considered as one in which
a single namespace was shared by every process on the system.)
-.PP
+.P
A child process created by
.BR fork (2)
shares its parent's mount namespace;
the mount namespace is preserved across an
.BR execve (2).
-.PP
+.P
A process can obtain a private mount namespace if:
it was created using the
.BR clone (2)
@@ -920,7 +920,7 @@ of the namespace that it was previously sharing with other processes,
so that future mounts and unmounts by the caller are invisible
to other processes (except child processes that the caller
subsequently creates) and vice versa.
-.PP
+.P
For further details on mount namespaces, see
.BR mount_namespaces (7).
.\"
@@ -928,7 +928,7 @@ For further details on mount namespaces, see
Each mount has a parent mount.
The overall parental relationship of all mounts defines
the single directory hierarchy seen by the processes within a mount namespace.
-.PP
+.P
The parent of a new mount is defined when the mount is created.
In the usual case,
the parent of a new mount is the mount of the filesystem
@@ -936,7 +936,7 @@ containing the directory or file at which the new mount is attached.
In the case where a new mount is stacked on top of an existing mount,
the parent of the new mount is the previous mount that was stacked
at that location.
-.PP
+.P
The parental relationship between mounts can be discovered via the
.IR /proc/ pid /mountinfo
file (see below).