Mount (Unix)
In computing, codice_1 is a command in various operating systems. Before a user can access a file on a Unix-like machine, the file system on the device which contains the file needs to be mounted with the mount command. Frequently codice_1 is used for SD card, USB storage, DVD and other removable storage devices. The command is also available in the EFI shell. Overview. The codice_1 command instructs the operating system that a file system is ready to use, and associates it with a particular point in the overall file system hierarchy (its "mount point") and sets  options relating to its access. Mounting makes file systems, files, directories, devices and special files available for use and available to the user. Its counterpart codice_4 instructs the operating system that the file system should be disassociated from its mount point, making it no longer accessible and may be removed from the computer. It is important to codice_4 a device before removing it since changes to files may have only partially been written and are completed as part of the codice_4. The codice_1 and codice_4 commands require root user privilege to effect changes. Alternately, specific privileges to perform the corresponding  action may have been previously granted by the root user. A file system can be defined as user mountable in the codice_9 file by the root user. Examples. To display all mounted partitions: $ mount proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw) /tmp on /var/tmp type none (rw,noexec,nosuid,bind) 10.4.0.4:/srv/export/setup_server on /nfs/setup_server type nfs (ro,addr=10.4.0.4) To mount the second partition of a hard disk drive to the existing directory "/media/PHOTOS" (mount point ): $ mount /dev/hda2 /media/PHOTOS To unmount by referring to the physical disk partition: $ umount /dev/hda2 To unmount by referring to the mount point: $ umount /media/PHOTOS To remount a partition with specific options: $ mount -o remount,rw /dev/hda2 Derivatives and wrappers. codice_10 is a wrapper around the standard mount program which permits normal users to mount removable devices without a matching /etc/fstab entry. This provides a robust basis for automounting frameworks like GNOME's Utopia project and keeps the usage of root to a minimum. This package also contains a wrapper pmount -hal, which reads information such as device labels and mount options from HAL and passes it to pmount. The codice_11 package contains programs for mounting, unmounting and ejecting storage devices. The goal for gnome-mount is for GNOME software such as gnome-volume-manager and GNOME-VFS to use this instead of invoking mount/umount/eject/pmount or direct HAL invoking methods. GNOME previously used pmount. Note, gnome-mount is not intended for direct use by users. All the gnome-mount programs utilize HAL methods and as such run unprivileged. The rationale for gnome-mount is to have a centralized  place (in GConf) where settings such as mount options and mount locations are maintained. As with all unix-like commands, the options are specific to the version of mount and are precisely detailed in its man page. In addition to the system call mount, the function mount_root() mounts the first, or root filesystem. In this context mount is called by the system call setup.