Tribblix: manual page: rmmount.1

RMMOUNT(1) User Commands RMMOUNT(1)

NAME

rmmount, rmumount - mounts and unmounts removable media

SYNOPSIS

rmmount [-u] [-o options] [nickname | device] [mount_point]

rmmount [-d] [-l]

rmumount [nickname | mount_point | device]

rmumount [-d] [-l]

DESCRIPTION

The rmmount and rmumount utilities mount and unmount removable or
hot-pluggable volumes. The optional argument can identify the volume
by its volume label, mount point or block device path.

rmmount can also take additional mount options if the user has
sufficient privileges to override the default mount options.

Unmounting removable media does not result in its ejection. Use
eject(1) to optionally unmount and eject the media.

OPTIONS

The following options are supported for rmmount and rmumount:

-d
Display the device path of the default device. This device is
used if no arguments are supplied.

-l
Display the paths and nicknames of mountable devices.

The following options are supported for rmmount only:

-o options
Display mount options. This option can only be used by
users that have privileges to override the system
default options.

-u
Unmounts the volume as opposed to mounting it.

OPERANDS

The following operands are supported:

device
Specifies which device to mount or unmount, by the
name it appears in the directory /dev.

mount_point
Specifies which device to mount or unmount, by the
name it appears in the directory /dev.

nickname
Specifies which device to mount or unmount, by its
nickname as known to this command.

EXAMPLES

Example 1: Mounting a USB disk

The following example mounts a USB disk with a volume label of
PHOTOS:

example% rmmount PHOTOS

Example 2: Unmounting a pcfs Volume

The following example unmounts a pcfs volume by device path:

example% rmumount /dev/dsk/c4t0d0p0:1

EXIT STATUS

The following exit values are returned:

0
Successful completion.

>0
An error occurred.

FILES

/media
Default mount root.

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