Mounting over the Terminal

System: BeOS, Haiku, Zeta

Mounting a Drive over the Terminal

Mounting a Image file over the terminal

Unmount a Drive or Image file

How to mount a Drive using the terminal

With the shell tool mountvolume you can mount a drive over the terminal.

To mount a drive we open the Terminal (/boot/beos/apps/Terminal). If we know the name of the drive we want to mount, use this command:

If we dont know the name of the drive we can use a option of mountvolume to display them:

We run the mountvolume command with the option rescan (- r) and list (- l) to display all mounted and unmounted drives.

In the list we see all mounted and unmounted drives. We can see the name, mountpoint and filesystem of every Drive.

*If you need more informations about the shell tool mountvolume, type mountvolume --help into the termial.

How to mount a imagefile using the terminal

To mount a imagefile over the terminal we use the shell tool mount.

If you mount a image file you can use it like a harddisk, but we don't can mount it like them. We don't can say mount imagefile without a mountpoint. We can do this creating a imaginary folder:

* Name stands fort the name of the imaginary folder.

If the folder is created you can mount the imagefile into this folder:

* For this example we use a BFS Imagefile (Image.bfs). You can mount other imagefiles too.

* To the Imagefile (Image.bfs) you need to add the path to the file. Something like /boot/home/Image.bfs

* If you need more informations about the shell tool mount, type mount --help into the termial.

How to unmount a Imagefile or Drive using the terminal

The command to unmount a imagefile or a drive are the same, because the imagefile will managed from the system like a drive:

* Change /Drivename to the name of the drive you want to unmount.