Mount

Mount tmpfs

Creates a temporary ramdisk which content will be removed when unmounted. Fast reading and writing.

Code: Mounting a 1GB ramdisk using tmpfs

mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /mnt/tmp -o size=1g

Mount bind

Bind mounting makes SRC available as both SRC and DST. Files will be accesable from both SRC and DST.

Code: cli

mount --bind SRC DST

Code: fstab

SRC DST none bind 0 0

Mount move

Used to move a mountpoint from SRC to DST. Files will only be accesable from DST.

Code:

mount --move SRC DST

Mount loopback

Loopback can be used to mount images (both harddisk images and cd iso)

Code:

mount -o loop SRC DST

Code: Create empty disk image

dd if=/dev/zero of=DST bs=4096 count=10000 mke2fs DST