On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 11:41:25PM -0500, Jim Travnick wrote:
>
> alright now im realy lost what in the world is a mount point? storm linux
> wants that after it took my d drive and made it for linux but i cant find
> anything about a mount point. could realy use some help here as i dont have
> enough hair to pull out trying this as i lost most of it with windoz.
>
A mount point is similar to the concept of a "drive letter" in MS-world,
except, completely different. UNIX doesn't use drive letters. Everything
branches off of one root filesystem (/). You'll have at least one Linux
partition, which you install Linux to. You'll want to mount this at
mountpoint /, because it's the root filesystem. To mount any other
filesystems, such as the filesystems on other hard drive partitions, on
floppies, on CD-ROMs, etc., you mount them somewhere onto the root
filesystem. Although they're on a seperate logical device, the filesystems
effectively become parts of the same directory tree.
For example, you might want to mount your CD-ROM drive to a directory called
/cdrom. That's where the Debian family mounts it be default, the Redhat
family mounts it at /mnt/cdrom. It's a matter of personal taste. You could
mount your CD-ROM anywhere onto the filesystem that you wanted, even some
place like /var/lib/nfs/sm/bobsmith... but that would be stupid. Unlike
DOS, where drive letters are assigned automatically, you an mount a filesystem
anywhere.
If you have DOS/Windows partitions, you'll probably want to mount them
some place like /mnt/win. If you have multiple Linux partitions (which is
a good idea), you can, for example, use one as a seperate /var partition
by mounting it as /var (in fact, if you DON'T have a seperate /var partition,
you're open to a ton of denial of service attacks that can cripple your
system).
That good?
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Craig McPherson
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