Windows and macOS, by default, automatically mount every disk that is attached to the computer. Every mounted volume is assigned a drive letter. 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.
