Mounting Removable devices

Mounting Removable media

• Mounting integrates a foreign file system into the main tree.
• Before accessing media must be mounted.
• Before removing media must be unmounted.
• In GNOME and KDE Environments devices auto mount under /media/
• In Console, root can manually mount devices under /mnt/

For Floopy#mkdir /mnt/floopy #mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floopy #umount /dev/fd0For CD ROM#mkdir /mnt/cdrom #mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom #umount /dev/cdrom In console NON-ROOT user can use $gnome-mount –t –d /dev/cdrom $gnome-mount –t –d /dev/sda $gnome-umount –t –d /dev/sdb $gnome-mount –t –d /dev/cdrom $gnome-umount –t –d /dev/cdrom

USB Media

USB are detected by the kernels as SCSI deices
-   /dev/sda, /dev/sdax, /dev/sbd, /dev/sdbx, etc

Automatically mount on KDE and GNOME environment
-   Similar location as CDs.
-    /media/disk-lable   or   /media/disk

Unmount USB with

-    Right click à unmounts volume
-    #umount /dev/sdax

For non-root users

$gnome-mount –t –d /dev/sda1
$gnome-umount –t –d /dev/sda1

CDs and DVDs

• it is automatically mounted on GNOME and KDE environment
• accessible from:

-  Computer desktop icon, cdrom
-  Cd-rom desktop icon
-   /media/disk-lable  or  /media/cdrom

Eject with

-   Right click and Eject
-   #eject /dec/cdrom

For non-root users