Mounting

Task Commands

Show device messages dmesg | less

Show block devices lsblk, blkid

Show raw block devices cat /proc/partitions

Show mounted devices df or mount

Mount all devices in /etc/fstab mount -a

Mount device in /etc/fstab mount <device path> or mount <mountpoint path>

Unmount device umount <device path> or umount <mountpoint path>

Mount with multiple options mount -o acl,rw <device path> <mountpoint path>

Find locks on mounted devices fuser <mountpoint path> or <device path>

Find locks on mounted devices lsof | grep <mountpoint>

Mount Type Device Path

IDE Disk /dev/hda1

SATA, SCSI, USB, Firewire /dev/sda1

CDROM writable /dev/sr0

Disk by label /dev/disk/by-label/root

Disk by UUID /dev/disk/by-uuid/bc5fbb9a-5e6e-46a0-9636-452129350168

Disk by ID /dev/disk/by-id/dm-name-VolGroup00-LogVol00

Filesystem Type Commands

Windows Fat32 mount -t vfat /dev/sdb /media/disk/

Optical disk (CD/DVD) mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom/

Windows network drive mount -t cifs //computer/share /mnt/smbshare/

Unix network drive mount -t nfs computer:/share /mnt/nfsshare/

Disk File mount -o loop diskfile.img /media/diskfile/

Filesystem Mount options

Windows Filesystems fat,vfat, exfat, ntfs

Linux Filesystems ext2, ext3, ext4, xfs, btrfs

Network filesystems cifs, nfs, gfs2

Example /etc/fstab

Device Mountpoint Filesystem Options dump? fsck?

/dev/sda1 / ext4 defaults,acl 1

1

/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom iso9660 user,exec 0

0

fs:/var/share /var/share nfs defaults 0

0