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System Administration Commands                     mount_pcfs(1M)



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 sys-
     tem 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.


     The pcfs file system supports direct mounting of files  con-
     taining  the  file  system  as  well  as  block devices. See
     mount(1M) and lofiadm(1M).


     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:

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

         o    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.

OPTIONS




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System Administration Commands                     mount_pcfs(1M)



     generic_options

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


     -o

         Specify pcfs file system-specific options. The following
         options are supported:

         clamptime | noclamptime

             File timestamps in pcfs cover a range between  Janu-
             ary  1st  1980  and  December 31st 2127. This is not
             equal to the range of time_t on Unix for either  32-
             bit  or  64-bit  applications. In particular, 32-bit
             applications  fail  with  EOVERFLOW  errors  on  the
             stat(2) system call when timestamps beyond the range
             of  32-bit  time_t  are  encountered.  In  order  to
             prevent  such  spurious  failures,  pcfs  by default
             clamps timestamps to the common subset  of  possible
             pcfs  timestamps  and  the range available to 32-bit
             applications in Unix.  The  clamptime  mount  option
             therefore  is  active by default. If you want access
             to the full range of possible  timestamps  on  pcfs,
             mount  the  file  system  with the noclamptime mount
             option. Note that if noclamptime is used,  only  64-
             bit  applications  will  have  access  to timestamps
             beyond  January  19th  2038,  03:14:06  UTC;  32-bit
             applications will encounter EOVERFLOW errors.


         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.


         hidden | nohidden

             Allow or disallow listing of files  with  hidden  or
             system  bits set. Option hidden is the default. When
             nohidden is effect, hidden and system files are nei-
             ther  visible nor accessible. Note that PCFS in pre-
             vious releases of the Solaris operating system  used
             the nohidden option as the default.


         atime | noatime




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             Enable or disable write access  timestamps  on  DOS-
             formatted  media.  Default for fixed disks is atime,
             while for  removable  media  noatime  is  used.  The
             latter  default  is  so  that  writes to flash-based
             media ("memory sticks") can be minimized, to prolong
             lifetime.


         timezone=timezone

             Timestamps on DOS-formatted media  are  recorded  in
             the  local  time  of  the recording system. This can
             cause confusion when accessing  removable  media  in
             which  the  recording  and receiving system use dif-
             ferent time zones. Use this option  to  force  media
             timestamps  to  be  interpreted  for a specific time
             zone. The mount_pcfs command converts the given time
             zone  name into a numerical offset that is passed to
             the pcfs kernel module,  using  the  same  rules  as
             described in environ(5) for the TZ environment vari-
             able. By default, the timezone value is  taken  from
             the TZ environment variable.



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  attri-
     butes:



     ________________________________________________________________
    |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |         ATTRIBUTE VALUE         |
    |_____________________________|_________________________________|
    | Availability                | system/extended-system-utilities|
    |_____________________________|_________________________________|


SEE ALSO
     lofiadm(1M),  mount(1M),  mountall(1M),  mount(2),  stat(2),
     time(2),  mnttab(4),  vfstab(4), attributes (5), environ(5),



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     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.
















































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