Mount

This page should be named mount (all lowercase). It is Mount do to a technical limitation of Mediawiki.

mount mounts filesystems.

basic usage

Mount a USB thumb drive:

root@mckinley:/media# mount -o umask=000 /dev/sdd1 sdd1

In this case, the thumb drive is formatted as one big VFAT partition. The umask option makes everything writeable by everyone.

Mount an image of a cdrom:

ggeller@roosevelt:~$ mkdir test
ggeller@roosevelt:~$ sudo mount -o loop,ro tests.iso test

The file test.iso is a image of a CD-ROM. The mount command uses the read-only option and mounts using loop device.

see also http://sansforensics.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/digital-forensic-sifting-how-to-perform-a-read-only-mount-of-filesystem-evidence/

show_sys_files= Show NTFS Metadata files You can make an image of an ntfs partition to a file under linux. Then you can mount it as a loop device:

# mount -t ntfs -o loop,ro,show_sys_files sda1-20090823 testdir