On Thu, 17 May 2018 20:14:03 +0100, druck wrote:

> On 17/05/2018 16:07, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>> 'mount' is for mounting disk partitions by creating a directory,
>> typically in the root directory, that points to the partition - not for
>> creating directories in partitions.
>
> No, mount works on many other types of devices and virtual filing
> systems.
>
Yeah, I was thinking about the initial partition mount. IIRC the
directories in the root partition are created from /etc/fstab during the
initial mount, because for sure they aren't set up by partition
formatting, but I may have misremembered how fstab processing works.

Apart from that my other mounts, e.g. for backups, were scripted years
ago and have not been looked at since ... the brain gets rusty.


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