Timeline for understanding "mount" as a concept in the OS
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| S Jul 3, 2023 at 16:00 | history | suggested | Mehdi Charife | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Improved formatting |
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| Jan 5, 2021 at 11:10 | comment | added | Riccardo Murri | Well, that's a separate question and a valid one to ask on this site :-) | |
| Jan 3, 2021 at 23:39 | comment | added | Don Slowik | Right, so we don’t “mount” a device or partition, we mount a file system that has been formatted onto a particular device or partition. From man mount(1): “mount attaches a file system to the file system hierarchy...”. So we first operated on device to partition, then on the partition with mkfs. So my question becomes: it seems those devices and partitions are already part of the fs under /, how did they get those names (e.g. /dev/hda1) without having been mounted? (They did need names to be operated on.) And what’s in /proc/ likewise wasn’t a fs that was mounted at /proc... | |
| Jan 2, 2021 at 21:33 | comment | added | Riccardo Murri | @DonSlowik No, you can only mount devices that have been formatted with a filesystem: mounting means that the top directory on the device becomes visibile at the mount point. (You can still operate on unformatted devices, e.g. to format them, but not mount them.) | |
| Jan 1, 2021 at 16:17 | comment | added | Don Slowik | So, Can I mount a drive/device that is not already formatted as a particular file system? I thought mount could only attach files systems into the virtual file namespace? | |
| Aug 16, 2017 at 13:01 | comment | added | Riccardo Murri | @Pacerier Well, no: the term used everywhere in the Linux/UNIX world is "mount". The word "link" is used to refer to a different concept: see e.g. cyberciti.biz/tips/… | |
| Aug 16, 2017 at 1:03 | comment | added | Pacerier | @RiccardoMurri, So basically, mount is a redundant word and concept. Just use the word "link". Link the drive, Unlink the drive, The linkpoint is x. | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:36 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://unix.stackexchange.com/ with https://unix.stackexchange.com/ | |
| Oct 18, 2010 at 15:16 | comment | added | Riccardo Murri | @Vass yes, that is precisely what happens. | |
| Oct 18, 2010 at 14:45 | comment | added | Vass | so, when a flash drive is mounted into /media/usb, the OS maps commands like 'ls' from this directory to the flash drive to get the output? | |
| Oct 18, 2010 at 14:14 | vote | accept | Vass | ||
| Oct 18, 2010 at 14:01 | history | answered | Riccardo Murri | CC BY-SA 2.5 |