mount_udf(8)

mount_udf8

Mount a udf filesystem

Usage

mount_udf [-o options] special node

Overview

The mount_udf command attaches a UDF filesystem (typically found on a DVD) residing on the device special to the global filesystem namespace at the location indicated by node. The filesystem is always mounted readonly. This command is invoked by mount(8) when using the syntax

mount [options] -t udf special node

The options are as follows:

-o options

Options are specified with a -o flag followed by a comma separated string of options. See the mount(8) man page for possible options and their meanings.

Releases

44 releases since OpenBSD 3.8; the text changed 6 times.

  1. 3.8
  2. 3.9–4.1
  3. 4.2
  4. 4.3–5.3
  5. 5.4
  6. 5.5–6.6
  7. 6.7–8.0

History

UDF support first appeared in FreeBSD 5.0, and was then ported to OpenBSD 3.8.

Authors

Scott Long ⟨[email protected]⟩ did the original work; Pedro Martelletto ⟨[email protected]⟩ adapted it to OpenBSD.

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.