Mount

Mounting is the attaching of an additional filesystem to the currently accessible filesystem of a computer. - Mounting Definition by www.linfo.org

Installation
mount, part of, is part of the system set and so already installed on your system.

Usage

 * Show mounted filesystems:


 * Mount a filesystem. Device file and mountpoint are required. Non system relevant filesystems are normally mounted in.


 * Umount a filesystem. You can specify the device file or the mountpoint:


 * Mount a filesystem with additional options:

The filesystem has to support the mount option. Many are common, but some are filesystem specific. For more information see the mount man page.

mounting as non-superuser
According to man mount only the superuser can mount filesystems. However, when fstab contains the user option on a line, anybody can mount the corresponding system.

mounting windows shares (cifs)
Despite fstab entries non-superuser mounts of windows shares will fail (for security reasons)

The solution is to use in combination with a corresponding entry in /etc/sudoers to allow passwordless mounting. Please read Sudo before editing /etc/sudoers!