mount_pcfs(1M)						  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 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.

       The pcfs file system supports direct mounting of files containing 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).  Exam-
		  ples 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

       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 January 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 pre-
	       vious 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 neither visible nor accessible. Note that PCFS in previous releases of the Solaris operating system used the
	       nohidden option as the default.

	   atime | noatime

	       Enable or disable write access timestamps on DOS-formatted media. Default for fixed disks is atime, while for removable media noat-
	       ime 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 different 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 variable. 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 attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWesu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       lofiadm(1M), mount(1M), mountall(1M), mount(2), stat(2), time(2), mnttab(4), vfstab(4), attributes(5), environ(5), 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 sym-
       bolic link refers, rather than on top of the symbolic link itself.

SunOS 5.11							    12 May 2008 						    mount_pcfs(1M)