Chapter 8. File Systems and Mount Points

1. Principles
2. Partitioning a Hard Disk, Formatting a Partition
3. The mount and umount Commands

The best way to understand these concepts is to look at a practical case. Suppose you have just purchased a brand new hard disk with no partitions on it. Your Mandrakelinux partition is completely full, and rather than starting again from scratch, you decide to move a whole section of the tree structure[20] to your new hard disk. Because your new disk has a large capacity, you decide to move your biggest directory to it: /usr. But first, a bit of theory.



[20] Our example assumes that the whole tree is contained in a single partition.