Introduction

Today's systems

Disk geometry

Disk partitions

File system
 

Practical Approach

Hardware setup

Partitions

Mount

Automate mounts
 
 
 
 
 
 

• For faster mount using just for example: 

mount /mnt/cdrom
• Edit file /etc/fstab 

/dev/hda1               /                       ext2    defaults        1 1
/dev/hda2               /home                   ext2    defaults        1 2
/dev/hda3               /usr                    ext2    defaults        1 2
/dev/hda4               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             ext2    noauto          0 0
/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              iso9660 noauto,ro       0 0
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
• Hard drives usually mount at boot time and read-write 
• CD-ROMs mounted when needed (noauto) and read-only (ro) 
• For CD-ROMs usualy make scripts to mount and unmount:


#!/bin/sh
# mcd - script for mounting CD-ROM
echo -n "Mounting CD-ROM : "
mount /mnt/cdrom 
echo "done"

#!/bin/sh
# umcd - script for unmounting CD-ROM
echo -n "Unmounting CD-ROM : "
umount /mnt/cdrom 
eject
echo "done"