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layout: page
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category-page: intermediate
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category-title: Intermediate commands
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tags: mount drive umount storage device
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author: Marco Farace
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title: mount
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previous-page: pages/cmd/interm/md5.html
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next-page: pages/cmd/interm/neofetch.html
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---
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To access a file on a Unix-like machine, the file system that contains it
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needs to be mounted with the <code>mount</code> command. Mount is frequently used for
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movable storage devices such as SD cards, DVDs, etc...<br>
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The mount command instructs the operating system that a file system is ready to
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use, and associates it with a particular point in the overall file system
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hierarchy (its mount point) and sets options relating to its access. Mounting
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makes file systems, files, directories, devices and special files available for
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use and available to the user.<br>
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Its counterpart, umount, does exactly the opposite.<br>
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Both mount and umount require root user persmissions.<br>
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To display all mounted partitions just write <code>mount</code>.<br>
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This command will mount the second partition of a HDD:<br>
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<pre>
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mount /dev/hda2 /media/PHOTOS
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</pre>
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and will unmount (by referring to the physical disk partition):<br>
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<pre>
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umount /dev/hda2
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</pre>
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or (by referring to the mount point):<br>
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<pre>
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umount /media/PHOTOS
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</pre>
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<h3>Flags</h3>
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<ul>
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<li>-d: Causes everything to be done except for the actual system call.
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This option is useful in conjunction with the -v flag to determine
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what the mount command is trying to do.</li>
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<li>-v: Verbose mode. (Gives additional detail during the mount process)</li>
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<li>-f: Forces the revocation of write access when trying to downgrade a
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filesystem mount status from read-write to read-only.</li>
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<li>-u: The -u flag indicates that the status of an already mounted file
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system should be changed. Any of the options discussed above
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(the -o option) may be changed; also a file system can be changed
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from read-only to read-write or vice versa. An attempt to change
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from read-write to read-only will fail if any files on the
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filesystem are currently open for writing unless the -f flag is
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also specified.</li>
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<li>-w: Mount the file system read-write.</li>
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<li>-o: Options are specified with a -o flag followed by a comma separated
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string of options. The following options are available:
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<ul>
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<li>noexec: Do not allow execution of any binaries on the mounted file system.
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This option is useful for a server that has file systems containing
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binaries for architectures other than its own.</li>
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<li>noowners: Ignore the ownership field for the entire volume. This causes all
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objects to appear as owned by user ID 99 and group ID 99. User ID 99
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is interpreted as the current effective user ID, while group ID 99 is
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used directly and translates to ``unknown''.</li>
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<li>nobrowse: This option indicates that the mount point should not be visible via
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the GUI (It will not appear on the Desktop as a separate volume).</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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</ul>
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