Mount

Mount allows to setup USB drives, floppy drives, zip drives etc ...

Permanent mount

To permanently mount partitions one should edit the /etc/fstab file as root. Here's a sample /etc/fstab file:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
/dev/hda6       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
/dev/hda7       none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0

# my NTFS Windows XP partition
/dev/hda1       /mnt/WinXP      ntfs        ro,defaults             0 0

# my files partition shared by windows and linux
/dev/hda5       /mnt/shared     vfat        umask=000               0 0

Mounting a windows partition

Make sure to get the right packages installed. In Debian/Ubuntu systems, these are:

> sudo apt-get install smbfs smbclient samba samba-tools swat smb2www xsmbrowser

Mounting the \\delta.ist.utl.pt\software network drive

> mount -t cifs //delta.ist.utl.pt/software /mnt/delta

Mounting \\guillaume\temp network drive

> mount -t cifs -o username=guillaume,password=XXXX,workspace=MARETEC //guillaume.maretec.ist.utl.pt/temp /mnt/win

Example

> mount -t vfat /dev/sda5 /mnt/fathdd

mounts a fat32 partition.

> mount -a

calls fstab without the need for rebooting the system.

External References

• mount manpage
• Wikipedia fstab