Mounting filesystems

We have created an ext4 filesystem on the partition /dev/sdb1. Now we need to mount our filesystem somewhere in the Linux directory tree.

But why do we need to mount? I mean we have just created an ext4 filesystem on the 2 GB partition /dev/sdb1. Can't we just start creating files in /dev/sdb1? The answer is a big FAT NO! Remember, /dev/sdb1 is only a file that represents a partition.

To mount a filesystem, we use the mount command as follows:

mount filesystem mount_directory

So let's assume we are going to use the filesystem /dev/sdb1 to store our games. In this case, let's create a new directory /games:

root@ubuntu-linux:~# mkdir /games

Now the only thing left is to mount our filesystem /dev/sdb1 on the /games directory:

root@ubuntu-linux:/# mount /dev/sdb1 /games

We can verify our work by running the...