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    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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  • politician Mount (computing), the process of making a file system accessible Mount (Unix), the utility in Unix-like operating systems which mounts file systems...
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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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    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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  • Fstab (category Unix file system technology)
    uses, it has been superseded by automatic mounting mechanisms. The file has other names on some versions of Unix; for example, it is found at /etc/vfstab...
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    df (abbreviation for disk free) is a standard Unix command used to display the amount of available disk space for file systems on which the invoking user...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • mv is a Unix command that moves one or more files or directories from one place to another. If both filenames are on the same filesystem, this results...
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    is a Unix system call that returns file attributes about an inode. The semantics of stat() vary between operating systems. As an example, Unix command...
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  • Research Unix are early versions of the Unix operating system for DEC PDP-7, PDP-11, VAX and Interdata 7/32 and 8/32 computers, developed in the Bell...
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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Chroot (redirect from Chroot (Unix))
    chroot is an operation on Unix and Unix-like operating systems that changes the apparent root directory for the current running process and its children...
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  • Loop device (redirect from Loopback mount)
    In Unix-like operating systems, a loop device, vnd (vnode disk), or lofi (loop file interface) is a pseudo-device that makes a computer file accessible...
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  • 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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  • 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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    rm (short for remove) is a basic command on Unix and Unix-like operating systems used to remove objects such as computer files, directories and symbolic...
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  • computer programs designed to enable users of one Unix system to log in or issue commands to another Unix computer via TCP/IP computer network. The r-commands...
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    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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  • 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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  • Mtab (category Unix file system technology)
    (contraction of 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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