To mount a device or partition, the mount command is used. The mount command provides large number of options and the common pattern for mount command is shown below.

mount options device directory

Example:

[root@RHEL06 ~]# mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

/dev/cdrom is a device file associated with CD-ROM drive. The directory /mnt/cdrom is a directory conventionally used as the mounting point for CD-ROMs. The type of filesystem found on most CD-ROMs is iso9660, and that value is provided with -t option. The -o option, ro, states that the filesystem is read-only.

Refer the next link to learn about different Linux mount options.

To umount an already mounted device, you can use “umount” command.

Example:

[root@RHEL06 ~]# umount /dev/cdrom

Or

[root@RHEL06 ~]# umount /mnt/cdrom

 

 

Related Topics...

• Linux File System Management Tools - fdisk command

• Linux File System Management Tools - mkfs, mkfs.ext2, mkfs.ext3 commands

• What is file system journaling?

• Linux File System Management Tools - fsck command

• Introduction to Linux /etc/fstab file

• Linux mount options

 

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