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NAME

       xvmount - device mounter with OpenLook interface

SYNOPSIS

       xvmount [ generic XView arguments ] [ -qh ] [ -d <directory> ]

DESCRIPTION

       xvmount  is  a  small graphical frontend for mounting devices. The Open
       Windows user interface contains a number of buttons  for  mounting  and
       unmounting  the different devices. If the user presses one of the mount
       buttons xvmount calls the corresponding mount(8) system call to perform
       the actual device mounting.  After successfully mounting the device the
       label of the button is changed to ’umount’. Pushing the  umount  button
       results in the corresponding umount(8) system call.

       Before  unmounting  a  disk the filesystems super-block is written by a
       sync system call.

       Errors and status messages are displayed in  the  status  line  of  the
       window.

       To mount and umount devices the user needs permissions by corresponding
       settings in the /etc/fstab file.

OPTIONS

       generic XView arguments
              xvmount should accept the generic tool  arguments  described  in
              xview(1).

       -d directory
              Use  the  given  directory  as the location of the configuration
              file "xvmounttab" instead of the global /etc.

       -q     Add a Quit button to the main window. Useful for users of window
              managers  which  do  not  provide  their  own Dismiss buttons by
              default.

       -h     Display a summary of options.

CONFIGURATION

       The number of buttons and the devices which are available for  mounting
       are  described by a configuration file named "xvmounttab". Usually this
       file should be found in "/etc". A different location can  be  specified
       as  command line option or by the environment variable XVMOUNTPATH. The
       maximal number of mountable devices is 16.

       The config file has the following format:

           #####################################################
           #
           # Config file for xvmount (v3.7)
           #
           # name     directory

           Floppy:   /floppy

           Syquest:  /mnt
           CD-ROM:   /cdrom

           Special:  /special

       The ’#’ sign marks the rest of a line as a  comment.  Empty  lines  are
       allowed.   Each  line has to contain two entries: the name of the label
       and the mounting directory in the same notation  as  the  corresponding
       entry in the /etc/fstab file.

       The configuration file can be generated automatically or interactively
              from /etc/fstab by xvmountconfig(8).

HELP-INTERFACE

       For  an  online  help  you  can  use the integrated XView help. Hit the
       <Help> key over a control to find out what it does.  If you don’t  have
       a  <Help> key, you can use the  xmodmap (1) command to make one of your
       function keys act as a help key.  For example, xmodmap -ekeysym F1  =
       Help’ would make F1 bring up help messages.

ENVIRONMENT

       XVMOUNTPATH - search path for xvmounttab

FILES

       /etc/xvmounttab - config file for xvmount
       /etc/fstab       - mountable filesystem table

SEE ALSO

       mount(8), umount(8), fstab(5), sync(1), xvmountconfig(8)

AUTHOR

       Thomas Uhl, <uhl@fh-heilbronn.de>
       V.Ossenkopf, <ossk@ph1.uni-koeln.de> (Version 3.7)

COPYRIGHT

       v1.0 - 7.2.1993
       v1.1 - 28.3.1993
       v2.0 - 17.4.1993
       v2.5 - 5.5.1993
       v3.0 - 22.5.1993
       v3.5 - 14.8.1993
       v3.6 - 20.8.1994
       v3.7 - 30.8.2003

       Copyright (C) 1994 by Thomas Uhl

       This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
       GNU Public License.