In computing, mount is a command in various operating systems. Before a user can access a file on a Unix-like machine, the file system on the device which...
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of media, as would be appropriate for removable media. Mount (Unix) "What is meant by mounting a drive?". Indiana University-University Information Technology...
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accessible Mount (Unix), the utility in Unix-like operating systems which mounts file systems Mount!, a 2016 novel by Jilly Cooper Mount, a fixed point for...
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Fstab (category Unix file system technology)
directory /etc on Unix and Unix-like computer systems. The /etc/fstab file is used by utilities from the util-linux package (such as mount and findmnt), but...
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In Unix and operating systems inspired by it, the file system is considered a central component of the operating system. It was also one of the first parts...
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Unix (/ˈjuːnɪks/ , YOO-niks; trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T...
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Research Unix refers to the early versions of the Unix operating system for DEC PDP-7, PDP-11, VAX and Interdata 7/32 and 8/32 computers, developed in...
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The Unix philosophy, originated by Ken Thompson, is a set of cultural norms and philosophical approaches to minimalist, modular software development. It...
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Root directory (redirect from Super root (Unix))
other file systems are mounted as the system boots up. Unix abstracts the nature of this tree hierarchy entirely and in Unix and Unix-like systems the root...
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For a rename, an item's timestamp is not modified. On Unix implementations derived from AT&T Unix, cp, ln and mv are implemented as a single program with...
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typically implemented using the statfs() or statvfs() system calls. The Single Unix Specification (SUS) specifies that space is reported in blocks of 512 bytes...
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Daemon (computing) (redirect from Unix daemon)
facility, and sshd is a daemon that serves incoming SSH connections. In a Unix environment, the parent process of a daemon is often, but not always, the...
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Windows Services for UNIX (SFU) is a discontinued software package produced by Microsoft which provided a Unix environment on Windows NT and some of its...
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The Unix file system (UFS) is a family of file systems supported by many Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It is a distant descendant of the original...
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Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (redirect from Unix FHS)
used for the layout of Unix-like systems. It has been made popular by its use in Linux distributions, but it is used by other Unix-like systems as well...
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Gpart (category Unix file system-related software)
using Mount (Unix) and retrieve the data from the copy. $ mount -t <part type> /path/to/imagefile -o loop,offset=<part offset> /mnt/loop This will mount the...
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Chroot (redirect from Chroot (Unix))
chroot is a shell command and a system call on Unix and Unix-like operating systems that changes the apparent root directory for the current running process...
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The Unix command fuser is used to show which processes are using a specified computer file, file system, or Unix socket. For example, to check process...
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Microsoft Windows. However, though these are similar to POSIX mount points found in Unix and Unix-like systems, they only support local filesystems; on Windows...
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storage was not reused. Originally, developed for Unix, today it is also available on Unix-like and non Unix-like systems, KolibriOS, IBM i, EFI shell. and...
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In computing, apropos is a command to search the man page files in Unix and Unix-like operating systems. Apropos takes its name from the French "à propos"...
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Mkfs (category Unix file system-related software)
part of Unix and Unix-like operating systems. In Unix, a block storage device must be formatted with a file system before it can be mounted and accessed...
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system from Bell Labs (mid-1980s onward), union mounting is a central concept, replacing several older Unix conventions with union directories; for example...
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User identifier (redirect from User identifier (unix))
specific kernel implementation in use and possibly the mount options used. According to BSD Unix semantics, the group ownership given to a newly created...
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Mtab (redirect from Mounted file systems table)
mtab (mounted file systems table) file is a system information file, commonly found on Unix-like systems. This file lists all currently mounted filesystems...
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Umask (category Unix SUS2008 utilities)
value that limits the file permissions for newly created files in many Unix and Unix-like file systems. A system call with the same name, umask(), provides...
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Cygwin (category Unix emulators)
Cygwin-specific version of the Unix mount command allows mounting Windows paths as "filesystems" in the Unix file space. Initial mount points can be configured...
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In Unix-like operating systems, find is a command-line utility that locates files based on some user-specified criteria and either prints the pathname...
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Plan 9 from Bell Labs (section Unix compatibility)
Science Research Center (CSRC) at Bell Labs in the mid-1980s and built on UNIX concepts first developed there in the late 1960s. Since 2000, Plan 9 has...
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Samba (software) (category Unix network-related software)
accessible via the network. Unix users can either mount the shares directly as part of their file structure using the mount.cifs command or, alternatively...
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