5.2. The Disk and Network Filesystems Module

The Disks and Network Filesystems module is found under the System category, and allows you to configure which filesystems are mounted on your computer, where they are mounted from and what options they have set. The main page of the module (shown in Figure 5.1) lists all the filesystems that are currently mounted or available to be mounted.

For each filesystem, the following information is displayed:

Mounted As The mount point directory for this filesystem, or the message Virtual Memory.

Type A description of the filesystem type, followed by the actual short type name.

Location The disk, fileserver, or other location from which this filesystem was mounted. For nfs mounts, this column will be in the form servername:remotedirectory. For smbfs mounts, it will be similar to \servernamesharename.

In use? Yes or No, depending on whether the filesystem is currently mounted. For most filesystems, you can click on this field to mount or unmount immediately.

Permanent Yes or No, depending on whether the filesystem is permanently recorded so that it can be mounted at boot time.