RE: tlug: Mounting my W95 partition

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Jonathan Byrne--3Web wrote:

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> 7ol : Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>
> 6f : tlug@example.com <tlug@example.com>
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> >mkdir /w95
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> 
> 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 and no.  It mounts them so that it's transparent to the user, but it
knows what directories are mounted on what drives.  For example, I could
have a system with /, /usr, /var, /home, /tmp, /usr/local, and /w95 all on
different physical partitions, or even different physical drives if I
wanted to.  You can get a nice output of what's mounted where with 'mount'
by itself, and you can see free disk space with 'df'.  If you're not sure
what drive a certain subdir is on (ie, /var/lib/crap, in the example
above), you can do 'df /var/lib/crap' and it'll tell you the partition and
free disk space.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
               <sstone@example.com>
Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc. 
http://www.pht.com		http://armadillo.pht.co.jp
http://www.pht.co.jp	        http://www.turbolinux.com


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