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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers mount Post 302175507 by zazzybob on Friday 14th of March 2008 08:17:02 AM
Old 03-14-2008
The best place to start is the man page

$ man mount

Basically (this is a major generalisation though), you are mounting a physical piece of disk storage containing a filesytem to a mountpoint so that it can be accessed. Think of it like grabbing the partition on disk and "mounting" it as C: on a Windows system - this is a pretty bad analogy though.

For example:

# mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /mnt

Here, I mount the physical slice c0t0d0s0 (which contains a UFS filesystem) under /mnt. I can then traverse the mountpoint and access the files contained therein.

Many introductory UNIX texts cover this in far greater detail.

Cheers,
ZB
 

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HALEVT-MOUNT(1) 					      General Commands Manual						   HALEVT-MOUNT(1)

NAME
halevt-mount/halevt-umount - Mount or umount device through HAL SYNOPSIS
halevt-mount [options] [-w] mountpoint|device|udi halevt-mount [options] <-c | -r> <-a | mountpoint | device | udi> halevt-mount [options] <-l | -s> halevt-umount [options] < -a | mountpoint | device | udi> DESCRIPTION
halevt-mount Mount or umount device through HAL and keep a track of devices handled. When called as halevt-umount the default is to unmount, when called as halevt-mount the default is to mount. Option -c, -l, -r, -s or -w changes the operation performed. Additional argument is considered to be a mount point, a device or an udi when unmounting or removing. If the commands are not called with -s after changes in the state of the devices (after mounting, unmounting, removing devices), the infor- mation available for halevt-mount and halevt-umount may become out of sync with the state of the system. When run as user halevt (or as root), no uid= argument is passed to HAL when mounting, otherwise this option is passed, if the filesystem allows it. OPTIONS
-a When listing, list all the existing devices. For the other operations, perform the operation on all the handled devices. -c Remove the handled device. -d device Use device device. -f file Use file file to store information about the handled devices instead of the default. -h Help message and options summary. -i directory Use lock file and device information file in the directory directory (if they are not already specified). -l List handled devices. Formatted with, on each line, udi:device:mountpoint. -p mountpoint Use mountpoint mountpoint. -m umask Set mount umask to umask if run as a system user, and the filesystem supports it. -n file Use file file as lock file. -o option Add the option option to the mount call. -r Umount. -s Sync the information about the handled devices with the informations known by HAL. -u udi Use udi udi. -w Add to the handled devices. SEE ALSO
halevt(1), gnome-mount(1), pmount(1) VERSION
This is halevt-mount version 0.1.6.2. AUTHOR
Main author is Patrice Dumas pertusus at free dot fr. AVAILABILITY
The latest version of this program can be found at: http://www.nongnu.org/halevt/ COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Patrice Dumas <pertusus at free dot fr>, There is NO warranty. You may redistribute this software under the terms of the GNU General Public License; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING. 7th Edition HALEVT-MOUNT(1)
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