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automount

automount verb: to mount (a file system) automatically.

Verb

automount (third-person singular simple present automounts, present participle automounting, simple past and past participle automounted)

  1. (transitive) To mount (a file system) automatically.

Noun

automount (plural automounts)

  1. The automatic mounting of a file system.
    • It can manage devices, automounts, paths, sockets, and other things.2015, Christopher Negus, Linux Bible, page 567

Forms of automount

Verb
third-person singular presentautomounts
present participleautomounting
past participleautomounted
pastautomounted
Noun
pluralautomounts

Origin of automount

From auto- + mount.

Questions about automount

What does automount mean?
Automount means to mount (a file system) automatically.
What part of speech is automount?
Automount can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of automount?
The past tense of automount is automounted.

Words near automount in the dictionary

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  2. automotive industries
  3. automotives
  4. automotor
  5. automotors
  6. automount
  7. automounted
  8. automounter
  9. automounters
  10. automounting
  11. automounts

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