Prominently provide explanation of who is allowed to mount file

systems.
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.\" $NetBSD: mount.8,v 1.31 2001/06/05 11:22:47 wiz Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: mount.8,v 1.32 2001/09/12 21:48:08 gmcgarry Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1989, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.Ar node
are given, the disklabel is checked for the filesystem type.
.Pp
In
.Nx ,
a file system can only be mounted by an ordinary user who owns the
point
.Ar node
and has access to the
.Ar special
device (at least read permissions). In addition, the
.Em vfs.generic.usermount
.Xr sysctl 3
must be set to 1 to permit file system mounting by ordinary users.
See also
.Xr sysctl 8 .
.Pp
The system maintains a list of currently mounted file systems.
If no arguments are given to
.Nm "" ,