Most devices are indicated by a filename (of a block specialĭevice), like /dev/sda1, but there are other possibilities.

The option -l adds labels to this listing. The following command lists all mounted filesystems (of type The listing mode is maintained for backward compatibility only.įor more robust and customizable output use findmnt(8),Įspecially in your scripts. The exception is -all, in this caseĪlready mounted filesystems are ignored (see -all below for more Allīehavior is controlled by the kernel and it is usually specific The mount commandĭoes not implement any policy to control this behavior. Mounted on the same mountpoint multiple times. The same filesystem may be mounted more than once, and in someĬases (e.g., network filesystems) the same filesystem may be Or -source options to avoid ambiguous interpretation of the Then mount looks for a mountpoint (and if not found then for aĭevice) in the /etc/fstab file.

If only the directory or the device is given, for example: Remains mounted, the pathname dir refers to the root of the Mode of dir become invisible, and as long as this filesystem The previous contents (if any) and owner and See section 'Non-superuser mounts' belowįor more details. The root permissions are necessary to mount aįilesystem by default. The mount command is usually able to detect aįilesystem. (which is of type type) at the directory dir.

This tells the kernel to attach the filesystem found on device The standard form of the mount command is: Virtual way by network or other services. Used to control how data is stored on the device or provided in a The umount(8) command will detach it again. The mount command serves to attach theįilesystem found on some device to the big file tree. Mount device| mountpoint mount device mountpoint mount -bind| -rbind| -move olddir newdir mount -make-Īll files accessible in a Unix system are arranged in one big MOUNT(8) System Administration MOUNT(8) NAME top

Mount mac on linux