Mounted volumes are listed in File Explorer in the section named "This PC" (in Windows 10) or "My Computer" (in earlier versions of Windows). The mount point is a name that refers to the disk, like " C:" in Microsoft Windows, or " /" in Linux, BSD, macOS, and other Unix-like operating systems.įor instance, in Microsoft Windows, mountable file systems are called volumes. When mounting a disk, the operating system reads information about the file system from the disk's partition table, and assigns the disk a mount point. A "mounted" disk is available to the operating system as a file system, for reading, writing, or both.
Before an operating system can read from or write to a disk, the file system on one of the disk's partitions must be mounted.
A mount may refer to any of the following:ġ.
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