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Storage
The system uses all drives it sees. It means you can use floppies and
any other data storage devices. However, normally the devices (drives)
weren't loaded during the boot excluding the boot area. So? So you have
to split the filesystems for the moment. There is a special directory
called /mnt (it might differ, but seldom). The device has to be formatted
first (mkfs command) so if it is not, you'll have to read on till we get
to mkfs. :P
However, if the disk is ready, we can begin.
mount - mounts the disk/device filesystem
$ mount [options] <device> <directory>
Options:
-r read-only access
And that's all. Now we have full access to the disk/device. So we work
and do whatever we want... however, we can't change disks/devices while
they're mounted. To do so, or end our work with its filesystem, we use
umount.
umount - unmounts the filesystem
$ umount <device>
To just change floppies, unmount the first, change the floppy and mount
the second. Changing any devices without this procedure might cause very
serious system errors... or at least serious complications. ;)
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