Today's article is a familiar theme...

[KGIII]

Have you ever wanted to show your mounted filesystems? Yes? Well, I've covered that before.

For completeness-sake, I've decided to cover it again. This time around, we're using a command that you shouldn't need to install. There's nothing fancy, it's just a few simple commands.

Another Way To Show Mounted Filesystems • Linux Tips

We've covered this topic before, but I want to show you another way that you can show mounted filesystems.

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See? It's not difficult to show these things. This is just another way of achieving your computational goals. Linux is awesome like that - in that it offers us so many different choices. It's great that we have a variety of commands, each with their own options, to learn information. This is especially useful (perhaps not so much in this article) when you need to pipe that information to another command.

 

[osprey]

The findmnt command is so much more readable than the traditional mount command which became very cluttered after systemd was introduced. It even says on the mount man page:

For more robust and customizable output use findmnt

Before becoming familiar with findmnt, to get a reasonable view on screen I would read mount piping it through column:

mount | column -t

but findmnt is still more expressive than that as well with it's tree format.

 

[KGIII]

The findmnt command is so much more readable than the traditional mount command which became very cluttered after systemd was introduced.

It also has the -real flag which is handy for a concise output.

I was actually surprised that I hadn't covered it already.