The fact that multiple partitions are mounted on your file system is invisible to people using your
Linux system. It is an issue only when a partition runs out of space or if users need to save or use
information from a particular device (such as a floppy disk or remote file system) that isn??™t
mounted. Of course, any user can check this by typing the mount command.
Mounting File Systems
Most of your hard disks are mounted automatically for you. When you install Fedora, Ubuntu,
SUSE, or some other Linux systems, you are asked to create partitions and indicate the mount
points for those partitions. (Other Linux installation procedures will expect you to know that you
have to partition before beginning.) When you boot Linux, all Linux partitions residing on hard
disk that are listed in your /etc/fstab file are typically mounted. For that reason, this section
focuses mostly on how to mount other types of devices so that they become part of your Linux file
system.
The mount command is used not only to mount devices, but also to mount other kinds of file systems
on your Linux system. This means that you can store files from other operating systems or
use file systems that are appropriate for certain kinds of activities (such as writing large block
sizes).
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