Timeline for Why do we need to mount on Linux?
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| Jan 10, 2015 at 7:26 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @Greeso: I stand by my answer. | |
| Jan 10, 2015 at 1:32 | comment | added | Greeso | I have to disagree on your wording. /dev/cdrom is a device file (that has special abiliies allowing us to easily have i/o communication from/to the associated device). /media/cdrom is a directory, but essentially it is another file (remember, everything is a file in Linux, including directories). Now, when we mount we end up having a special ability to view the contents of the device file as a filesystem. My undestanding of the last sentance is from reading the answers above. | |
| Jan 9, 2015 at 16:50 | history | answered | Lightness Races in Orbit | CC BY-SA 3.0 |