mount points

[Tone39]

:rolleyes: Im a real newbie whats a mount point, I cant rtfm cos I have'nt got one, got this redhat disc with a machine I just bought,
its a 1 gig hdd, i intend to use the whole disc for linux,
Thanks in anticipation,

[ferreter]

Mount points are kinda like drives in Windows. You can get a good idea of what they are here: http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/Installation/How_to_Create_a_Multiple_Partition_System.html

[fancypiper]

A mount point is a directory listing on your filesystem where you can mount various things like a cdrom, a drive, an iso and probably other things I can't think of offhand.

It's sort of like a folder in Windows but it's much more flexable.

Everything in Linux (processes, devices, program files, drive partitions, etc) mounts on the root filesystem /

See my sig for good tutorials/guides to how Linux works.

[Tone39]

Thanks each
I'll be back
Must find a manual will look where you have suggested:)

[fancypiper]

For a hard copy manual on Linux, Running Linux (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/runux3/) is hard to beat.