100 Useful Command-Line Utilities
by Oliver; 201488. mount
mount, as the docs say, mounts a filesystem. Imagine two directory trees, one on your computer and one on an external hard drive. How do you graft these trees together? This is where mount comes in. On your Macintosh, external hard drives get mounted by default in the
/Volumes
directory of your computer.
Put differently, the directory tree of your computer and the directory tree of your HD are fused there.
I've only ever used the actual mount command in the context of mounting an EBS volume on an EC2 node on Amazon Web Services.
