You don't need to mount to read from or write to devices. These device files
provide raw access to devices. When you mount, you access block devices from the
filesystem.
Jayatheerthan Venkatramanan wrote:
> hi,
> i have got a system with win95(hda1) and linux(hda5). i didnt mount the win95
> partition. but i was fiddling with /dev directory as root. at one point of
> time i redirected ls to /dev/hda1. because of that the win95 partition got
> corrupted and was not getting booted.
>
> my question is:
> when i havent mounted the win95 partition, how is it that that partition
> is accessible?
> how /dev/file is related to the device when not mounted?
>
> Thanx
> Jay
>
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