Mounting File Systems

Imagine you have a new hard drive, USB stick, or a network share. For your Linux server to use it, you need to mount its file system.

Mounting is like telling your server: "Hey, this storage device contains files, and I want to access them through this specific directory." Until mounted, the storage device is just raw hardware.

The primary command to attach a file system to your server's directory tree is mount. It connects a specific device (like a partition) to a designated directory, called a mount point.

The basic syntax is:

• mount [device] [mount_point]

You'll often need sudo for this command as it involves system-level changes.