Mounting network file systems and retrieving files

In this section, we are going to learn about the mount command. To mount a file system onto the file system tree, use the mount command. This command will instruct the kernel to mount the file system found on a particular device. There is a mount point in the tree for each partition that is mounted.

Getting ready

Besides having a terminal open, make sure you have necessary files and directories present to mount

How to do it...

1. We are going to use the mount command to mount the file system. Then, we are going to use the ro and noexec options to mount:

$ mount -t ext4 /directorytobemounted /directoryinwhichitismounted -o ro,noexec

2. We can mount the device with default options too. Run the following command to mount a device using the default options:

$ mount -t ext4 /directorytobemounted /directoryinwhichitismounted -o defaults

3. The scp command is used to securely transfer files between two hosts. We can transfer files from our localhost to a remote...