Published Jul 29, 2022
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Mounting typically involves the attaching of an additional filesystem to the currently accessible filesystem of a computer.
Mount a filesystem. A device file, UUID or label or other means of locating the partition or data source and a mount point are required. Non-system relevant filesystems are normally mounted in the /mnt directory. The proper syntax for mounting a file system is as follows:
mount <DEVICE> <DIRECTORY>
The /media directory is generally used to mount removable devices such as USB
drives or SD cards. After determining which device the USB drive shows up as,
a command like the following could be used to mount its contents to a newly
created usb folder in /media
mkdir /media/usb
mount /dev/sdb1 /media/usb
To unmount a filesystem the device file or the mount point can be specified:
umount <DEVICE>
umount <DIRECTORY>