Mount file system

Mounting a file system is a system process that prepares a disk partition for use by the operating system .

The mount operation consists of several stages: ^[1]

1. determination of the type of mounted system;
2. checking the integrity of the mounted system;
3. reading system data structures and initializing the corresponding file manager module ( file system driver);
4. setting a flag indicating the end of the mount. If unmounted correctly, this flag is reset. If at boot the system determines that the flag is not cleared, then the work was completed incorrectly, and perhaps the FS needs to be fixed;
5. Including a new file system in a common namespace .