persistence in freeBSD

atar atar.yosef at gmail.com
Mon Sep 16 17:59:01 UTC 2013


the text in your citation doesn't appear in the following URL:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE&arch=i386&format=html

However, Thanks for the citation.

Regards,

atar.

Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> write:
> atar <atar.yosef at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> What does the '-u' option do? I've not find in the 'mount' man page
>> any explanation on this option.
>
> The man page includes:
>
>      -u      The -u flag indicates that the status of an already mounted  
> file
>              system should be changed.  Any of the options discussed  
> above
>              (the -o option) may be changed; also a file system can be  
> changed
>              from read-only to read-write or vice versa.  An attempt to  
> change
>              from read-write to read-only will fail if any files on the  
> file
>              system are currently open for writing unless the -f flag is  
> also
>              specified.  The set of options is determined by applying the
>              options specified in the argument to -o and finally  
> applying the
>              -r or -w option.


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