umount: device is busy. Why?
When running umount /path I get:
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How to mount an image file without root permission?
Can I mount a file system image without root permission? Normally I would do:
Why doesn’t mount respect the read only option for bind mounts?
On my Arch Linux system (Linux Kernel 3.14.2) bind mounts do not respect the read only option
How can I mount a filesystem, mapping userids?
I can successfully mount an ext4 partition, the problem is that all the files on the partition are owned by the user with userid 1000. On one machine, my userid is 1000, but on another it’s 1010. My username is the same on both machines, but I realise that the filesystem stores userids, not usernames.
understanding “mount” as a concept in the OS
Data on a computer, as you may know, is stored in binary as a series of 1s and 0s. The way these are stored on a device and their structure is called the “filesystem”. In Linux devices are referenced in /dev. Data is not actually stored on a device so you cannot access this data by going into /dev, this is because it is stored inside the filesystem on the device so you need to access these filesystems somehow. Accessing such filesystems is called “mounting” them, and in Linux (like any UNIX system) you can mount filesystems into any directory, that is, make the files stored in that filesystem accessible when you go into a certain directory. These directories are called the “mount points” of a filesystem.
mount options shown in /proc/mounts
IIRC then the mount options shown in /proc/mounts have changed. Some time ago acl and user_xattr were shown, now it seems that only noacl and nouser_xattr are shown if these features are turned off.
What is a “loop device” when mounting?
I am mounting an ISO file, and looking at this tutorial. They use the command:
Is there a command to see where a disk is mounted?
Is there a simple command that takes a disk’s device node as input, and tells me where (and whether) that disk is mounted? Is it possible to get the mount point by itself, so I can pass it to another command?
How does a kernel mount the root partition?
My question is with regards to booting a Linux system from a separate /boot partition. If most configuration files are located on a separate / partition, how does the kernel correctly mount it at boot time?