Linux Mount and Umount file system in linux

Mount

The mount command mounts a storage device or filesystem, making it accessible and attaching it to an existing directory structure.

Step1:Check all partitions in linux server

fdisk –l

This command list all existing disk partition on your system. The ‘-l‘ argument stand for (listing all partitions) is used with fdisk command to view all available partitions on Linux. The partitions are displayed by their device’s names. For example: /dev/sda, /dev/sdb or /dev/sdc.

Step 2: check disk space available

Df  -hT

df displays the amount of disk space available on the file system

Step 3: Umount new disk space

Umount /dev/sde1 

Step 4: create new directory

[root@devserver ~]# mkdir /PRODHD

Step 5: Mount the new directory

[root@devserver ~]# mount /dev/sde1 /PRODHD

Step6: check new mount point

df –hT

Umount :

The umount command "umounts" a mounted filesystem, informing the system to complete any pending read or write operations, and safely detaching it.

Step1:- Check which disk umount

Df -h

Step 2: Planned to /PRODHD disk is umount

Step 3: Enter umount command

umount  /dev/sdd1

Error:

Solutions:

Step 4: showing any error Check  umount scripts

#man umount

umount  -l  /dev/sdd1

Step 4: After check your mount Point device is umounted.