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.\" Copyright (C) 1997, 2007 Red Hat Software, Inc.
.\"
.\" This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
.\" under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
.\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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.\" WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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.\" Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston,
.\" MA 02110-1301, USA.
.\"
.TH USERMOUNT 1 "March 13 2007" "Red Hat"
.SH NAME
usermount \- A graphical tool to mount, unmount and format filesystems.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B usermount
[
.I options
]
.B userformat
[
.I options
]
.I device
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B usermount
is a graphical tool to allow users to easily manage removable media,
such as floppy disks or zip disks. When the tool starts up, it scans
.I /etc/fstab
for all filesystems that have been configured to allow users to mount
and unmount them. The filesystem can be mounted or unmounted by
pressing the toggle button labeled \fIMount\fR.
.PP
Also, if the user has the appropriate permissions for the device, the
.I Format
button will be active. This allows the user to format disks using
.B fdformat
and create a new filesystem of the type listed (using
.B mkfs
with the appropriate option). Naturally, the user will be prompted for
confirmation before actually destroying data on the device.
.PP
Note that if a device is already mounted, the format button is
inactive for all entries that share the same device.
.PP
When run as root,
.B usermount
displays all of the entries in
.I /etc/fstab
rather than just the ones with the
.I user
option.
Invoking
.B userformat
.I device
allows formatting \fIdevice\fR,
as if by selecting
.I device
in the
.B userformat
window, and by clicking the
.I Format
button.
.SH OPTIONS
This program has no command line options of its own, but it does take
the standard X program options like
.B -display
and such. See the
.IR X (1)
man page for some of the common options.
.SH FILES
.TP 25
.I /etc/fstab
The system file describing the mountable filesystems.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IR mount (8),
.IR fdformat (8),
.IR mkfs (8),
.IR fstab (5)
.IR X (1)
.SH BUGS
Mount entries with a filesystem type of iso9660 are outright
considered CD-ROMs and the format button is always disabled.
.PP
Mount entries for swap files or partitions are also ignored. A nice
feature might be to allow root to turn swap on and off for swap
partitions.
.SH AUTHOR
Otto Hammersmith <otto@redhat.com>
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