Control Mounting and Unmounting of Filesystems

Introduction

Welcome to the Control Mounting and Unmounting of Filesystems Practice Lab. In this module you will be provided with the instructions and devices needed to develop your hands-on skills.

Learning Outcomes

In this module, you will complete the following exercises:

• Exercise 1 - Configure User Mountable Removable Filesystems

After completing this lab, you will be able to:

• Log into a Linux System
• Manually mount and unmount filesystems
• Configure filesystem mounting on bootup
• Configure user mountable removable filesystems

Exam Objectives

The following exam objectives are covered in this lab:

• LPI: 104.1 Create partitions and filesystems
• LPI: 104.3 Control mounting and unmounting of filesystems
• CompTIA: 1.4 Given a scenario, manage storage in a Linux environment.

Lab Duration

It will take approximately 1 hour to complete this lab.

Exercise 1 - Configure User Mountable Removable Filesystems

The Linux filesystem uses the root as the base of a filesystem. Along with root, you can have different filesystems on different devices and partitions. When you boot a Linux system, the root (/) filesystem is mounted as part of the initialization process. However, the remaining filesystems are not usable until they are mounted at a specific mount point.

In this exercise, you will understand how to configure user mountable removable filesystems.

Learning Outcomes

After completing this exercise, you will be able to:

• Log into a Linux System
• Manually mount and unmount filesystems
• Configure filesystem mounting on bootup
• Configure user mountable removable filesystems