Why Use MOUNT?

Use MOUNT to make a volume available to your users. You can mount and dismount one or all volumes while the file server is running.

Command Format

MOUNT volume_name

or

MOUNT ALL

Use MOUNT to make a newly created volume available to your users or to mount a volume that is not used very often. You may want to leave rarely used volumes dismounted since each mounted volume takes up memory and reduces the memory available for file caching.

To mount a volume, type

MOUNT volume_name <Enter>

If you try to mount a volume before creating it with INSTALL or if the file server has a problem locating all the segments in a given volume, the following message appears:

Volume volume_name could NOT be mounted.Some or all volume segments cannot be located.

If you try to mount a volume that is already mounted, the following message appears:

Volume volume_name is already mounted.

Mount Several Volumes

To mount several volumes at once, type

MOUNT ALL <Enter>