On Saturday 16 November 2002 00:08, Vasanth K . S wrote:
Hi List,
What is the difference between Partition,
A prepared section of your hard drive. Can be up to all the disk. A drive such as /dev/hda will have numbered partitions /dev/hda1 ... etc.
Slices and
I think this is what Sun Microsystems call a partition.
Mount Points
The directory in the file system where you 'mount' a partition (acurately: the filesystem on the partition) for access. So if you have a directory /mnt and you type mount /dev/hdd2 the second partition on the secondary slave ide drive will me 'mounted' on /mnt for use. type (in a console or terminal window): man mount man fstab and others... Dylan -- "Sweet moderation Heart of this nation Desert us not, we are Between the wars"