Fedora web server - Chapter 4 . Learning Basic Administration 163 Mounting
Chapter 4 . Learning Basic Administration 163 Mounting Removable Media If you want to mount a file system manually, the /etc/fstab file helps make it simple to mount a floppy disk or a CD. In some cases, you can use the mount command with a single option to indicate what you want to mount, and information is taken from the /etc/fstab file to fill in the other options. There are probably already entries in your /etc/fstab file to let you do these quick mounts in the following two cases: . CD If you are mounting a CD that is in the standard ISO 9960 format (as most software CD-ROMs are), you can mount that CD by placing it in your CD-ROM drive and typing one of the following: # mount /media/cd* # mount /mnt/cdrom By default, a CD is usually mounted on the /mnt/cdrom directory (Linux 2.4 kernels) or a subdirectory of /media (Linux 2.6 kernels). (The file system type, device name, and other options are filled in automatically.) To see the contents, type cd /mnt/cdrom or cd /media/cd*, and then type ls. Files from the CD s root directory will be displayed. . Floppy disk If you want to mount a floppy in the Linux ext3 file system format (ext3), or in some cases a format that can be autodetected, mount that floppy disk by inserting it in your floppy drive and typing one of the following: # mount /media/floppy* # mount /mnt/floppy The file system type (ext3), device (/dev/fd0), and mount options are filled in from the /etc/fstab file. You should be able to change to the floppy disk directory (cd /mnt/floppy or cd /media/floppy*) and list the contents of the floppy s top directory (ls). In both of the these cases, you could give the device name (which is something like /dev/hdc, /dev/cdrom or /dev/fd0) instead of the mount point directory to get the same results. Of course, it is possible that you may get floppy disks you want to use that are in all formats. Someone may give you a floppy containing files from an older Microsoft operating system (in MS-DOS format). Or you may get a file from another UNIX system. In those cases, you can fill in your own options instead of relying on options from the /etc/fstab file. In some cases, Linux autodetects that the floppy disk contains an MS-DOS (or Windows vfat) file system and mounts it properly without additional arguments. If it doesn t, here s an example of how to mount a floppy containing MS-DOS files: # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy Note
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