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Mounting Cheat Sheet: Cert Prep: Comptia Linux+ (Xko-004)

This document provides a cheat sheet for mounting devices in Linux. It lists common commands for mounting devices, such as mount, umount, and fuser. It also covers mounting by device path, label, UUID, or ID. Filesystem types like ext4, vfat, iso9660, cifs, and nfs are outlined. Examples of /etc/fstab entries are given with options like defaults, acl, and user.

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Mounting Cheat Sheet: Cert Prep: Comptia Linux+ (Xko-004)

This document provides a cheat sheet for mounting devices in Linux. It lists common commands for mounting devices, such as mount, umount, and fuser. It also covers mounting by device path, label, UUID, or ID. Filesystem types like ext4, vfat, iso9660, cifs, and nfs are outlined. Examples of /etc/fstab entries are given with options like defaults, acl, and user.

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Cert Prep: CompTIA Linux+ (XKO-004)

with Grant McWilliams

Mounting Cheat Sheet


Task Command

Show device messages. dmesg | less

Show block devices. lsblk, blkid

Show raw block devices. cat /proc/partitions

Show mounted devices. df or mount

Mount all devices in /etc/fstab. mount -a

Mount device in /etc/fstab. mount <device path> or mount <mountpoint path>

Unmount device. unmount <device path> or unmount <mountpoint path>

Mount with multiple options. mount -o acl,rw <device path> <mountpoint path>

Find locks on mounted devices. fuser <mountpoint path> or <device path>

Find locks on mounted devices. lsof | grep <mountpoint>

Mount Type Device Path

IDE disk /dev/hda1

SATA, SCSI, USB, FireWire /dev/sda1

CD-ROM writable /dev/sr0

Disk by label /dev/disk/by-label/root

Disk by UUID /dev/disk/by-uuid/bc5fbb9a-5e6e-46a0-9636-452129350168

Disk by ID /dev/disk/by-id/dm-name-VolGroup00-LogVol00

Filesystem Type Command

Windows Fat32 mount -t vfat /dev/sdb /media/disk/

Optical disk (CD/DVD) mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom/

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Windows network drive mount -t cifs //computer/share /mnt/smbshare/

Unix network drive mount -t nfs computer:/share /mnt/nfsshare/

Disk file mount -o loop diskfile.img /media/diskfile/

Filesystem Mount Option

Windows filesystems fat, vfat, exfat, ntfs

Linux filesystems ext2, ext3, ext4, xfs, btrfs

Network filesystems cifs, nfs, gfs2

Example /etc/fstab
Device Mountpoint Filesystem Options dump? fsck?

/dev/sda1 / ext4 defaults,acl 1 1

/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom iso9660 user,exec 0 0

fs:/var/share /var/share nfs defaults 0 0

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