The mounted
Linux partitions in this case are /dev/sda2, which provides space for the /boot directory (contains
data for booting Linux), and /dev/sda3, which provides space for the rest of the Linux file
system beginning from the root directory (/).
This particular system also contains a Windows partition that was mounted in the /mnt/win
directory and a CD that was mounted in /media/cdrecorder. (With most GUI interfaces, the
CD is typically mounted automatically when you insert it. For 2.6 kernels, look in the /media
directory; for 2.4 kernels the /mnt directory is often used.)
After the word type, you can see the type of file system contained on the device. (See the description
of different file system types in Table 4-5.) Particularly on larger Linux systems, you may have
multiple partitions for several reasons:
Multiple hard disks??”You may have several hard disks available to your users. In that
case you would have to mount each disk (and possibly several partitions from each disk)
in different locations in your file system.
Protecting different parts of the file system??”If the users on a system consume all of
the file system space, the entire system can fail. For example, there may be no place for
temporary files to be copied (so the programs writing to temporary files fail), and incoming
mail may fail to be written to mail boxes.
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