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- Mount
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"Mounting" a filesystem means making a filesystem
accessible to the operating system. "Mounting point' is where
the filesystem is being mounted such as '/'. This has tree structure.
- Syntax
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mount <options> source directory
The most useful option is "-t" which specifies the
type of filesystem
you are mounting. Here are examples:
- mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos
- mount -t vfat /dev/hda2 /mnt/windows
- mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /mnt/cd
- mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc1 /home
- mount -t nfs kernel-panic.com:/export /kernel-panic
- mount -t ext2 image img
- mount -t iso9660 cdimage linuxdist
- mount -t ntfs /dev/hdb1 /mnt/nt
