Mounting a Filesystem
On a GNU/Linux system there's no necessary correspondence between
directories and physical devices as there is in Windows, in which each
drive has its own directory tree beginning with a letter (such as C:\).
Instead, each physical device such as a hard disk or floppy disk has one
or more filesystems on it. In order to make a filesystem accessible, it's
assigned to a particular directory in another filesystem. To avoid
circularity, the root filesystem (which contains the root directory /) is
not stored within any other filesystem. You have access to it
automatically when you boot Debian.
A directory in one filesystem that contains another filesystem is known as
a mount point. A mount point is a directory in a first filesystem on one
device (such as your hard disk) that ``contains'' a second filesystem,
perhaps on another device (such as a floppy disk). To access a filesystem,
you must mount it at some mount point.
So, for example, you might mount a CD at the mount point /cdrom. This
means that if you look in the directory /cdrom, you'll see the contents of
the CD.
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