external USB hard drive?mounting, messing up boot

[Andrew McNabb]

On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 07:03:17AM -0600, Dave Smith wrote:
> To answer your mounting questions:
> 
> The way you mount is like this:
> 
>    mount <device> <directory>
> 
> (Okay naysayers, I know that <device> is technically a file system on a 
> partition of a device, but you get the point).

I'm as anal as the next guy, and I find your usage impeccable.  To the
kernel, a partition of a device is another device, with a brand new
minor device number.  It's probably most correct to say that, "Mount
wants a block device with a filesystem on it."

Additionally, it's actually pretty common to have a filesystem on an
unpartitioned device.  For example, floppy disks (remember those?!) were
never partitioned.  USB drives are often unpartitioned.  CDs, in my
experience, are rarely partitioned.


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