On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 01:54:11PM +0000, Heimo Claasen wrote:
> So why starting up Linux _does_ demand to have them insterted ?
> I found numbers of such indications in articles, Howtos etc.
>From the man page of mount:
The mount command serves to attach the file system found on some device to
the big file tree. Conversely, the umount(8) command will detach it again.
So, as you can see you have to have a *file system* to mount. Keep in mind,
that mount has nothing to do with hardware identification of the device
(this is done by the kernel using probe routines).
Elias
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