Re: tlug: Mounting my W95 partition

[Karl-Max Wagner <karlmax@example.com>]

> 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?
Yes, exactly. Under UN*X everything is a file system, even the
hardware interfaces. In fact, you can even mount file systems
over networks - even across the globe. This seemingly simple
concept has in fact proven extremely powerful and has the
advantage that it hides hardware aspects almost completely from
the user - whatever the actual makeup of a filesystem may be,
you can treat the all the same.

At first glance that sounds funny, but after a while you see how
much trouble that saves you.

                                  Karl-Max Wagner
                                  karlmax@example.com
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