General aspects relating to mounting and unmounting operations

Both bs2fs file systems and the bs2fs container can be mounted and unmounted during ongoing operation using the mount and umount commands respectively. However, the order specified below must be observed here. Command entries which deviate from this order result in errors and cause the command concerned to abort:

Order for mounting and unmounting operations

• Mounting the bs2fs container
  The ufs file system with the property bs2fs container must be mounted before the first bs2fs file system can be mounted.

• Mounting or unmounting bs2fs file systems
  bs2fs file systems can be mounted and unmounted again while the bs2fs container is mounted.

• Unmounting the bs2fs container
  The bs2fs file system with the property bs2fs container can be unmounted only when no bs2fs file system is mounted.