On Monday 24 May 2004 11:12 am, Don Gould wrote: > That worked... > > There must be a basic concept idea that I'm missing here but why can't I > just see the volume at /dev/hda1 ? Because that is the raw device file.
> Why do I have to mount it? So that you can access your data via the file system recorded on the device. > Sorry if this is a dumb ass question. Yes, it is. Why don't you buy ( or download ) a book and have a read? Alternatively using the online Unix manual page would have told you the answer much faster than than relying on us. man mount is another friend. For a nicer formatted text you can use the protocol man:// in Konqueror. So key man://mount into the Konqueror location bar. The GNU info system is similarly available with the protocol info:// Konqueror uses the # symbol as a short cut for the man pages and ## for info pages. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks.
