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
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)