Make a FileSystem available for access.
Linux does this by associating the file system with a directory (the "MountPoint") within a currently mounted FileSystem. The "root" file system is mounted on the root directory, "/" early in the boot sequence. mount(8) is also the command that does this; umount(8) breaks the association.
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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