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This directory (mount point) then obtains the permissions of the root directory of the mounted file system.

The root directory of this file system is mounted during mounting in a directory (mount point) of another file system. If a drive has been formatted with a Linux file system, the root directory on that file system belongs to the user “root”.

If a drive has a partition with a file system that is compatible with Linux rights management (for example, ext3, ext4, btrfs, or xfs), the rights of that file system will apply. When mounting then what is already in the directory is “invisible” made. Since the mount point must exist in the form of a directory when mounting, it may be that there are already files or other directories in this directory. The mount point is nothing more than a local directory through which the external file system can be reached after being mounted. The mount point is the location where the external file system hooks into the local file system. This is not a problem as long as it is clear that one does not attach the physical data carrier in the form of the hardware, but a logical data carrier in the form of a file system. No matter what type of drive, there are always one or more partitions on which a file system is set up, mounted by the Linux kernel in the local file system.Īlthough you attach file systems to the mount, it is generally referred to as mounting drives, disks, and NAS. It should be noted that under Linux no hard disks or USB sticks are mounted, but file systems. This can be a hard disk, a USB stick or a directory share of a NAS with NFS or Samba in the local network. It does not matter what form the disk has. Mount refers to the mounting or embedding of a data medium in the local file system under Linux.