Mounting or unmounting a storage medium

Generally, a hot-swappable storage medium is automatically mounted when it is connected to the device. If the system cannot recognize the storage medium, however, you must mount the storage medium before you can access it.

To remove a hot-swappable storage medium from the device, you must first unmount it to disconnect it from the device. Otherwise, files on the storage medium or even the storage medium itself might be damaged.

Restrictions and guidelines

To mount/unmount a partitioned storage medium, you must mount/unmount all the partitions individually, instead of mounting/unmounting the medium as a whole. To unmount a USB disk, make sure the system has recognized the USB disk and the USB disk LED is not blinking. Otherwise, the USB interface or USB disk might be damaged.

Before unmounting a storage medium, make sure no other users are accessing the medium. Otherwise, the unmount operation fails.

Configuration procedure

Perform one of the following tasks in user view as appropriate:

Task

Command

Remarks

Mount a storage medium.

mount medium-name

By default, a storage medium is automatically mounted and in mounted state when connected to the system.

Unmount a storage medium.

umount medium-name

By default, a storage medium is automatically mounted and in mounted state when connected to the system.