Re: tlug: Mounting my W95 partition

["Scott H. Perlman" <perlman@example.com>]

Yes and no.

There are many commands you can use that will be intelligent about
filesystem boundaries. (df, du find just to name a couple)

There is understanding on fphysical drive variation,a nd seperate
filesystem.  However, in Unix this is hidden from the User.

Back before the even 3-400 MB disks were common, you would /bin/ /usr
and /home on seperate physical disks more often than not.  

There is one massive virtual filesystem that includes all of this.  
You need a directory entry, as a stub to add things to the filesystem.
Its existence is purely as a stub.  I usually touch a file inside any
mount point. (when the mount is NOT up) so that it is apparent that the
directory is not a real directory but only a moutn point, even if I come
up single user and don't have things mounted.

	# ls /floppy0
	Mount_dev_fd0_Here.

-Scott

Jonathan Byrne--3Web wrote:
> >mkdir /w95
> 
> You have to make a *directory* to mount a partition?!  Does this mean that
> UNIX/Linux don't really understand partitions as different physical units,
> but rather see them as being a single directory in one big file system?
> 
> Jonathan
> 


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