"Mounting a drive"

Fabian Keil freebsd-listen at fabiankeil.de
Mon Jul 10 12:48:49 UTC 2006


rs <rs at pswl.com> wrote:

> Could  someone  explain  exactly what is meant by "mounting" a disk. I
> understand  that it is making a disk available for use, but would like
> to understand the implications of the term and what abilities it
> confers.

<http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mount-unmount.html>
 
> Part  of  the  purpose of the question is that I am trying to find out
> how  I  can  have more partitions and detachable drives than there are
> letters in the alphabet.

FreeBSD has no "number of letters in the alphabet" limitation.
Are you aware of the fact that this isn't a Windows specific mailing
list?

Fabian
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