The root permissions are necessary to mount a filesystem by default. Mount options for xfs see the options section of the xfs5 man page. Specifying the mount options red hat enterprise linux 6. The mount command serves to attach the file system found on some device to. How to mount and unmount file systems in linux linuxize.
This is necessary to avoid a filesystem corruption. The previous contents if any and owner and mode of dir become invisible, and as long as this filesystem remains mounted, the pathname dir refers to the root of the. The fstab or file systems table file is a system configuration file commonly found at etcfstab on unix and unixlike computer systems. A file system is specified by giving the directory where it has been mounted. The mount 8 command attaches a file system to the systems name space hierarchy at a given mount point. In computing, mount is a command in various operating systems. It is usually invoked indirectly by the mount8 command when using the t cifs option. Conversely, the umount 8 command will detach it again. The command mount does not pass all commandline options to the sbin mount.
The interface between mount and the mount helpers is described below in the section external helpers. Mount8 linux programmers manual mount8 name mount mount a file. The mount command is usually able to detect a filesystem. The umount command detaches unmounts the mounted file system from the. Conversely, the umount8 command will detach it again. The maintainer of the linux cifs vfs and the userspace tool mount. The linux cifs mailing list is the preferred place to ask questions regarding these programs. The standard form of the mount command, is mount t type device dir.
The umount command detaches the file systems mentioned from the file hierarchy. The mount command is part of the sysappsutillinux package. A compilation of linux man pages for all commands in html. The standard form of the mount command, is mount t type device dir this tells the kernel to attach the filesystem found on device which is of type type at the directory dir. The mount command serves to attach the filesystem found on some device to the big file tree. The fstab file is read by the mount command, which happens automatically at boot time to. These files can be spread out over several devices.
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