What is a "mount point"?

Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 08:06:08 -0300
From: David Trueman <david@cs.dal.ca>
To: csuite-tech@chebucto.ns.ca
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A mount point is a point in the file system tree where you mount or "graft
on" another file system or sub-tree.  This way you can have complete
hierarchical file systems on separate disks and join them together into 
on big tree or hierarchy.

On Thu, 8 May 1997, Robert Cormier wrote:

> <bigger>What is a "Mount Point" in the context of CSuite installation? 
> 
> 
> #: fs.c:159 fs.c:165 fs.c:173 fs.c:188 fs.c:196
> 
> msgid "Bad Mount Point"
> 
> msgstr "????????? errone'"
> 
> 
> #: fs.c:166
> 
> msgid "Mount points may not end with a /."
> 
> msgstr "Les ????????? ne peuvent se terminer par un /."
> 
> 
> #: fs.c:238
> 
> msgid "Edit Network Mount Point"
> 
> msgstr "E'dition du ????????? du re'seau"
> 
> </bigger>
> 
> 

  David Trueman,
    Systems Manager, Dalhousie Math, Stats and Computing Science
    Technical Chair, Chebucto Community Net



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