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2 AristotlePagaltzis 1 To make a FileSystem available for access. Done using mount(8) and undone using umount(8).
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2 AristotlePagaltzis 3 On Unix systems this is done by associating the FileSystem being mounted with a the MountPoint, ie an actual directory in an already mounted FileSystem. The "root" file system is mounted on the root directory, __/__, early in the boot sequence.
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5 Apparently derived from the physical sense of "mount" meaning "attach", as in "head-mounted display", or "set up", as in "AlwaysMountaScratchMonkey".
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3 CraigBox 7 See also FileSystemHierarchy.
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