mount.zfs — mount ZFS filesystem
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Description
The mount.zfs helper is used by mount(8) to mount filesystem snapshots and mountpoint=legacy ZFS
filesystems, as well as by zfs(8) when the ZFS_MOUNT_HELPER environment variable is not set. Users
should should invoke either mount(8) or zfs(8) in most cases.
options are handled according to the TemporaryMountPointProperties section in zfsprops(7), except for
those described below.
If /etc/mtab is a regular file and -n was not specified, it will be updated via libmount.
Name
mount.zfs — mount ZFS filesystem
Options
-s Ignore unknown (sloppy) mount options.
-f Do everything except actually executing the system call.
-n Never update /etc/mtab.
-v Print resolved mount options and parser state.
-h Print the usage message.
-ozfsutil
This private flag indicates that mount(8) is being called by the zfs(8) command.
See Also
fstab(5), mount(8), zfs-mount(8) OpenZFS May 24, 2021 MOUNT.ZFS(8)
Synopsis
mount.zfs [-sfnvh] [-ooptions] datasetmountpoint
