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, 16-bit, or 32-bit File Allocation Table.

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.

/etc/mnttab

table of mounted file systems

/etc/vfstab

list of default parameters for each file system

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

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

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.