Specifications

86 Chapter 7 Working with Disks and Volumes
Mounting Volumes
You can use the mount tool with parameters appropriate to the type of file system you
want to mount, or use one of these file-system–specific mount commands:
 For Apple File Protocol (AppleShare) volumes: mount_afp
 For ISO 9660 volumes: mount_cd9660
 For CD Digital Audio format (CDDA) volumes: mount_cddafs
 For Apple Hierarchical File System (HFS) volumes: mount_hfs
 For PC MS-DOS volumes: mount_msdos
 For Network File System (NFS) volumes: mount_nfs
 For Server Message Block (SMB) volumes: mount_smbfs
 For Universal Disk Format (UDF) volumes: mount_udf
 For Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) volumes:
mount_webdav
mount
prepares and grafts a special device or the remote node (rhost:path) to the file
system tree at the point node. For more information, see the related man pages.
To view a list of mounted file systems:
$ sudo mount
To mount a network folder:
$ mount /dev/
If the mount succeeded, mount returns the value 0.
Unmounting Volumes
You can use the umount tool to unmount a volume. umount removes a special device or
the remote node (rhost:path) from the file system tree at the point node.
To unmount a volume:
$ umount
If the umount succeeded, umount returns the value 0. For more information, see the
umount man page.
Displaying Disk Information
Use the df tool in /bin to view free disk space and to identify:
 What your current disk partitions are
 How much space each partition uses
 Which block each partition starts on
 Which device file is associated with each partition
 Where each partition is mounted