Jack Wallen introduces new Linux users to the mount command and how to use it to mount an external drive to the internal file system.

The Linux mount command is used to link a directory on the Ubuntu computer to the share. Once mounted, the shares can be accessed through the directory named in the mount command.

Get the command options and syntax you need to make smbmount and smbclient access a Windows system from a Linux workstation.

Windows 10 now allows you to mount physical disks formatted using the Linux ext4 filesystem in the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.