Mount
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mount is the unixish program that mounts volumes and volume-like files.
Mount an ISO image as a device
mount -o loop image.iso /media/image
Where image.iso is the image file and /media/image is a directory upon which to mount.
Mapping /tmp to a directory on another filesystem
To move /tmp from the system partition to the bigger home partition on my system, I did this:
- Create the new target directory, here
/home/.tmp - Set permissions (chown to
root:root, chmod to1777) - Add an entry to fstab after the entry for
/home(see below) - Mount /tmp to its fstab setting (
sudo mount /tmp)
This fstab entry must come after the parent filesystem of the target:
# Put /tmp on /home/.tmp /home/.tmp /tmp none bind
(The actual mount command for this is mount --bind /home/.tmp /tmp, but this isn't permanent.)
