i am trying to figure out how to use scripts. specifically for now i want to be able to mount iso images. i am trying to follow this tutorial, it seems the best i've seen.
esostigma wrote:no i did not realize i could do that. i'm afraid i don't know what it means, but i need to. can you break it down for me?
mount is the command to mount a filesystem (mostly). It can also do 'virtual' things like mounting one directory onto another one, or mounting images. To change the behaviour you pass it some options. The "-o" means that whatever follows the "-o" bit are options. You can provide a comma separated list of options, like you might see in your /etc/fstab file. Here we just tell it "loop" which means "mount the device as a loop device". A loop device is basically an image, whether it be a raw hard disk image (.bin), an iso or some other format. The mount command mounts the path on the left, to the directory on the right.
You can theoretically create two directories and make them behave as one: