104.3 Control mounting and unmounting of filesystems

Question 1

What is the command to mount a hard drive into the FS?

Answer 1

#mount  
#mount /dev/sdb1 /opt

Question 2

What command unmounts a drive from the FS mounting point?

Answer 2

umount

Question 3

What file has to be modified for a drive to be consistently available between reboots?

Answer 3

/etc/fstab

Question 4

What command shows every single mount point in a system?

Answer 4

mount

Question 5

What command is used to see mount points of a particular type?

Answer 5

#mount -t 
#mount -t ext4

Question 6

Where does the #mount command get its information from?

Answer 6

/etc/mtab which in turns gets its info from /proc/mounts

Question 7

What is the syntax of the #mount command?

Answer 7

mount

Question 8

What options can be used to unmount a file system?

Answer 8

You can use the device name, the label or mount point.

Question 9

What gets mounted to the /media location usually?

Answer 9

USB drives, CD drives, DVD devices or external HDDs

Question 10

What flag can you give #lsblk to see the FS types in the partitions and their UUID-Universally Unique Identifier-?

Answer 10

[-f]  #lsblk -f   or
#blkid