and then the mount options from command line will be appended to
the list of options from
.IR /etc/fstab .
-The usual behaviour is that the last option wins if there is more duplicated
+The usual behavior is that the last option wins if there is more duplicated
options.
When the
system mount options see /proc/mounts.
.TP
.B nostrictatime
-Use the kernel's default behaviour for inode access time updates.
+Use the kernel's default behavior for inode access time updates.
.TP
.B suid
Allow set-user-identifier or set-group-identifier bits to take
.\" requires CONFIG_EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL
.TP
.BR bsddf | minixdf
-Set the behaviour for the
+Set the behavior for the
.I statfs
system call. The
.B minixdf
-behaviour is to return in the
+behavior is to return in the
.I f_blocks
field the total number of blocks of the filesystem, while the
.B bsddf
-behaviour (which is the default) is to subtract the overhead blocks
+behavior (which is the default) is to subtract the overhead blocks
used by the ext2 filesystem and not available for file storage. Thus
.sp 1
% mount /k \-o minixdf; df /k; umount /k
Print debugging info upon each (re)mount.
.TP
.BR errors= { continue | remount-ro | panic }
-Define the behaviour when an error is encountered.
+Define the behavior when an error is encountered.
(Either ignore errors and just mark the filesystem erroneous and continue,
or remount the filesystem read-only, or panic and halt the system.)
The default is set in the filesystem superblock, and can be
option was previously specified in order to restore normal behavior.
.TP
.BR errors= { continue | remount-ro | panic }
-Define the behaviour when an error is encountered.
+Define the behavior when an error is encountered.
(Either ignore errors and just mark the filesystem erroneous and continue,
or remount the filesystem read-only, or panic and halt the system.)
.TP
.TP
.BI onerror= value
-Set behaviour on error:
+Set behavior on error:
.RS
.TP
.B panic
.TP
.BR shortname= { lower | win95 | winnt | mixed }
-Defines the behaviour for creation and display of filenames which fit into
+Defines the behavior for creation and display of filenames which fit into
8.3 characters. If a long name for a file exists, it will always be
preferred display. There are four modes:
:
option are page size (typically 4KiB) through to 1GiB,
inclusive, in power-of-2 increments.
.sp
-The default behaviour is for dynamic end-of-file
+The default behavior is for dynamic end-of-file
preallocation size, which uses a set of heuristics to
optimise the preallocation size based on the current
allocation patterns within the file and the access patterns
to the file. Specifying a fixed allocsize value turns off
-the dynamic behaviour.
+the dynamic behavior.
.TP
.BR attr2 | noattr2
The options enable/disable an "opportunistic" improvement to
attributes) the on-disk superblock feature bit field will be
updated to reflect this format being in use.
.sp
-The default behaviour is determined by the on-disk feature
-bit indicating that attr2 behaviour is active. If either
+The default behavior is determined by the on-disk feature
+bit indicating that attr2 behavior is active. If either
mount option it set, then that becomes the new default used
by the filesystem.
.sp
"swidth" specified will return the "swidth" value (in bytes)
in st_blksize. If the filesystem does not have a "swidth"
specified but does specify an "allocsize" then "allocsize"
-(in bytes) will be returned instead. Otherwise the behaviour
+(in bytes) will be returned instead. Otherwise the behavior
is the same as if "nolargeio" was specified.
.TP
.B logbufs=value