Additional Resources

The following resources provide an in-depth documentation on the subject.

Installed Documentation

man 8 mount - The manual page for the mount command that provides a full documentation on its usage.

man 8 umount - The manual page for the umount command that provides a full documentation on its usage.

man 5 fstab - The manual page providing a thorough description of the /etc/fstab file format.

Useful Websites

Shared subtrees - An LWN article covering the concept of shared subtrees.

sharedsubtree.txt - Extensive documentation that is shipped with the shared subtrees patches.