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@@ -648,6 +648,23 @@ mount table. It also makes moving your settings to a different machine
much easier.
</para>
+<para>
+The <literal>-o</literal> option is the method via which various options about
+the mount point may be recorded. The following options are available (note that
+most of the options are duplicates of other mount flags):</para>
+
+<screen>
+ user - mount lives user-specific mount
+ system - mount lives in system table (default)
+ binary - files default to binary mode (default)
+ text - files default to CRLF text mode line endings
+ exec - files below mount point are all executable
+ notexec - files below mount point are not executable
+ cygexec - files below mount point are all cygwin executables
+ nosuid - no suid files are allowed (currently unimplemented)
+ managed - directory is managed by cygwin. Mixed case and special
+ characters in filenames are allowed.
+</screen>
</sect3>
<sect3><title>Cygdrive mount points</title>