Filesystem

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What Is Mountg?

Unix-like operatg systems (Lux, macOS, BSD), mountg (挂载) is the process of attachg a file system — whether it lives on a physical device, a network share, or a virtual disk image — to a specific directory the existg directory tree. That directory is called the mount pot. Once mounted, the contents of the file system become accessible as ordary files and directories under the mount pot.

The key sight is that Unix uses a sgle unified directory tree rooted at /. Unlike Wdows, which assigns a drive letter (e.g., D:\) to each volume, Unix tegrates all storage to one hierarchy. Mountg is the mechanism that makes this possible.