mount
Table of Contents
1. Mount a filesystem
Use mount(8) to manually mount a filesystem under, e.g. /dev/sda1, to a directory
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
2. Unmount a filesystem
Use umount(8) to unmount a filesystem by targeting the mount point
umount /mnt
3. Power off a device
See udisksctl
4. Mount options
Filesystems-independent mount options (like defaults, relatime etc) are explained in mount(8)
4.1. List mounted filesystems and their mount options
~$ mount sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=8105335k,nr_inodes=2026334,mode=755,inode64) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000) tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=1628971k,mode=755,inode64) /dev/nvme0n1p2 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro) ...
5. List mounted filesystems
Use findmnt(8) to list all mounted filesystems or lsblk(8) to list block devices
findmnt lsblk