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* pathnames.sgml (mount-table): Rephrase a few expressions for 

clearness.
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2012-01-24 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
* pathnames.sgml (mount-table): Rephrase a few expressions for
clearness.
2012-01-13 Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net>
* new-features.sgml (ov-new1.7.10): Document support for the %m

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@ -62,10 +62,15 @@ contains spaces these can be escaped as <literal>'\040'</literal>.</para>
If the name of the mount point contains spaces these can be
escaped as '\040'.</para>
<para>The third field describes the type of the filesystem.
Cygwin supports any string here, since the file system type is usually
not evaluated. The notable exception is the file system type
cygdrive. This type is used to set the cygdrive prefix.</para>
<para>The third field describes the type of the filesystem. Cygwin supports
any string here, since the file system type is usually not evaluated. So it
doesn't matter if you write <literal>FAT</literal> into this field even if
the filesystem is NTFS. Cygwin figures out the filesystem type and its
capabilities by itself.</para>
<para>The only exception is the file system type cygdrive. This type is
used to set the cygdrive prefix. For a description of the cygdrive prefix
see <xref linkend="cygdrive"></xref></para>
<para>The fourth field describes the mount options associated
with the filesystem. It is formatted as a comma separated list of
@ -77,8 +82,8 @@ posix=[0|1]. The meaning of the options is as follows.</para>
<screen>
acl - Cygwin uses the filesystem's access control lists (ACLs) to
implement real POSIX permissions (default). This flag only
affects filesystems supporting ACLs (NTFS) and is ignored
otherwise.
affects filesystems supporting ACLs (NTFS, for instance) and
is ignored otherwise.
auto - Ignored.
binary - Files default to binary mode (default).
bind - Allows to remount part of the file hierarchy somewhere else.
@ -185,7 +190,7 @@ mount the root dir with special options (for instance, as text mount).</para>
<screen> C:/Documents\040and\040Settings /docs ext3 binary 0 0</screen>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>A mount point for a remote directory without ACL support:</para>
<para>A mount point for a remote directory, don't store POSIX permissions in ACLs:</para>
<screen> //server/share/subdir /srv/subdir smbfs binary,noacl 0 0</screen>
</listitem>
<listitem>