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Complete guide for mounting

drives in RHEL/CentOS

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In this tutorial, we are going to discuss how we can mount various devices on a
RHEL/CentOS system using command line interface.

To view all the mounts on the system

If we want to see all the devices that are currently mounted on our machine, run
$ mount

To unmount a device
To unmount an already mounted device, run
$ umount mount_point
For example, if a device is mounted at /newdrive & needs to be unmounted, run
$ $ umount /newdrive

Mounting a NFS shared drive

To mount a NFS shared drive on the Linux machine, run
$ mount 192.168.1.100:/nfs_share /newdrive
Here, 192.168.1.100 is the IP address of the machine with NFS & /nfs_share in the name
of the folder that has been shared. This again is a temporary mount & we will need to
create an entyr in /etc/fstab for the permanent mount
$ vi /etc/fstab
192.168.1.100:/nfs_share /newdrive nfs defaults 0 0
here /newdir, is the mount point for drive that we created.

Mounting a Samba shared drive

There are many ways by which you can access samba shared device on your machine
but we will be using mount command. Command to mount a samba share on Linux is ,
$ mount t smbfs -o username=dan,workgroup=office,password=12345
192.168.1.100:/samba_share /newdir
Here, dan is username to access samba drive with a wotkgroup office & password
12345.
192.168.1.100:/samba_share is the samba device address.
To permanently mount a samba drive, open /etc/fstab & create an entry,
$ vi /etc/fstab
//192.168.1.100:/samba_share1 /newdir smbfs rw,user,username=dan,password=12345 0 0
Mount a new HDD partition
To mount a new HDD partition with ext4 filessytem on Linux, we will first create a mount
point
$ mkdir /newdrive
& then will mount the freshly created partition onto our machine by running,
$ mount /dev/sdb2 /newdrive
Where, /dev/sdb2 is the newly created partition. However the mount will be a temporary
mount & the partition will be un-mounted if the system reboots. To permanently a HDD
partition, we need to make an entry in /etc/fstab file.
$ vi /etc/fstab
/dev/sdb2 /newdrive ext4 defaults 0 0

Mounting a FAT32 based USB drive or HDD

Mounting a USB based drive is similar to mounting a new partition with one exception
that we will also need to mention the filesystem when mounting a usb drive. Command
for mounting a USB drive is
$ mount t vfat /dev/sdb1 /newdrive
To permanently mount a ntfs drive on the system, open /etc/fstab file & add
$ vi /etc/fstab
/dev/sdb2 /newdrive vfat defaults 0 0

Mounting a NTFS based usb drive or HDD

To mount a NTFS based drive, we need to install package named ntfs-3g on our system.
This package can be installed using yum by running the following command,
$ yum install ntfs-3g
Once install we can mount the drive,
$ mount t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /newdrive
To permanently mount a ntfs drive on the system, open /etc/fstab file & add
$ vi /etc/fstab
/dev/sdb2 /newdrive ntfs-3g defaults 0 0

Mounting a CD/DVD
To mount a CD/DVD onto the system, run
$ mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/cdrom /mnt

Here, /mnt is mount point for CD-Rom. To permanently mount a CD/DVD-rom on the
system, open /etc/fstab file & add
$ vi /etc/fstab
/dev/cdrom /mnt iso9660 defaults 0 0

Mounting an ISO to system

To mount an ISO to Linux system, run the following command
$ mount -t iso9660 -o loop rhel_X86-64_7.0.1.iso /mnt
To permanently mount an ISO file on the system, open /etc/fstab file & add
$ vi /etc/fstab
rhel_X86-64_7.0.1.iso /mnt iso9660 defaults 0 0

(Recommended Read: Creating SWAP partition using Fdisk & Fallocate commands)

Thats it guys, this was our tutorial on mounting various devices on RHEL/CentOS
machines. I hope this was informative article, please leave any queries/suggestion down
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