How to mount a file system in linux
1. mount name command
mount- mount a file system
2. Synopsis for mount command
mount [-lhV] mount -a [-fFnrsvw] [-t vfstype] [-O optlist] mount [-fnrsvw] [-o options [,...]] device | dir mount [-fnrsvw] [-t vfstype] [-o options] device dir
3. Frequently used options
-t vfstype The argument following the -t is
used to indicate the file system type.The file
system types which are currently supported
include:adfs, affs, autofs, coda, coherent,
cramfs, devpts, efs, ext, ext2, ext3, hfs, hpfs,
iso9660, jfs, minix, msdos, ncpfs, nfs,
nfs4, ntfs, proc, qnx4, ramfs, reiserfs, romfs,
smbfs, sysv, tmpfs, udf, ufs, umsdos, usbfs,
vfat, xenix, xfs, xiafs.
-o Options are specified with a -o flag
followed by a comma separated string of options.
4. Examples
Check your partitions with command:
fdisk -l
Lets mount our /dev/sdb1 disk partition with ext3 filesystem to mount point /mnt/sdb1:
mkdir /mnt/sdb1 mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1
we can now use -o remount option to remount it with read only permitions only:
mount -o remount,ro /dev/sdb1
To mount it back with read & write permitions:
mount -o remount,rw /dev/sdb1
With mount command we can mount all kinds of filesystem. For example to mount ISO image we can do:
mount -t iso9660 myiso.iso /mnt/cdrom -o loop
ISO image is now available from /mnt/cdrom direcotry.
Source taken from http://linuxconfig.org/
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