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3.2.3.1 Terms

Mount

 

"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

 

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

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