1.4 Mounting and Unmounting File Systems

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1.4 Mounting and Unmounting File Systems
Topic Started: Jan 31 2010, 08:38 PM (18 Views)
Speedy	Jan 31 2010, 08:38 PM Post #1
Google Whore Posts: 2,767 Group: Admin Member #8 Joined: January 27, 2007	1.4 Conducting Routing Mount and Unmount of File Systems mount – This command is used to attach or mount a device to a mount point directory. Umount – This command is used to detach or unmount a device from a mount point directory. /etc/fstab – This is a file used to specify the filesystems that are mounted automatically at boot time. Mount Point – This is a directory in a file structure to which a device is mounted. How does the mount command work? A properly run mount command would look something like this: mount -t auto /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy Here is what all this means: mount – This is the command itself -t – This is “Type” argument for the command. For this command, -t is used to specify the file-system of the device being mounted auto – This is specifying that the command should automatically detect the file-system being mounted, however you can specify other system types in here such as ext3 or vfat. /dev/fd0 – This is the device you will be mounting. /mnt/floppy – This is the location you will be mounting the device to.
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