From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 11:45:33 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: mount: add hint about -t and root perms to the man page
X-Git-Tag: v2.31.1~26
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1d5d6587500c79f925d8feb0a62d2630b02bf88f;p=thirdparty%2Futil-linux.git

mount: add hint about -t and root perms to the man page

Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/sys-utils/mount.8 b/sys-utils/mount.8
index ad122076a2..c6089a7ad2 100644
--- a/sys-utils/mount.8
+++ b/sys-utils/mount.8
@@ -82,6 +82,10 @@ This tells the kernel to attach the filesystem found on
 .IR type )
 at the directory
 .IR dir .
+The option \fB\-t \fItype\fR is optional.  The
+.B mount
+command is usually able to detect a filesystem.  The root permissions are necessary
+to mount a filesystem by default.  See section "Non-superuser mounts" below for more details.
 The previous contents (if any) and owner and mode of
 .I dir
 become invisible, and as long as this filesystem remains mounted,