Hi, On 22 October 2017 at 10:17, kalle <kalle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In the sentence "then mount looks for a mountpoint and if not found then > for a device in the /etc/fstab file" it should be made clear that the > mountpoint refers to the /etc/fstab-file, e.g. "then mount looks in the > /etc/fstab file firstly for a mountpoint and if not found then secondly > for a device". I did not understand the sentence until now and wondered, > what was meant by 'mountpoint'. Wrong project. Please see http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/mount.8.html#COLOPHON Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html