On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 07:03:17AM -0600, Dave Smith wrote: > To answer your mounting questions: > > The way you mount is like this: > > mount <device> <directory> > > (Okay naysayers, I know that <device> is technically a file system on a > partition of a device, but you get the point).
I'm as anal as the next guy, and I find your usage impeccable. To the kernel, a partition of a device is another device, with a brand new minor device number. It's probably most correct to say that, "Mount wants a block device with a filesystem on it." Additionally, it's actually pretty common to have a filesystem on an unpartitioned device. For example, floppy disks (remember those?!) were never partitioned. USB drives are often unpartitioned. CDs, in my experience, are rarely partitioned. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868
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