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| author | David Bryant <davidbryant@gvtc.com> | 2022-09-27 12:21:38 -0500 |
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| committer | David Bryant <davidbryant@gvtc.com> | 2022-09-27 12:21:38 -0500 |
| commit | 2646c571d70eb46b655b05ce795c7209a0973050 (patch) | |
| tree | ae1c15b56108f56c2c930cbf62d989ee2dad886a | |
| parent | 97f4747aaf1275c60ce3ca1e90d1f9162d2f3f34 (diff) | |
Clarify "mounting a partition" (chapter 2.7).
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter02/mounting.xml | 5 |
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diff --git a/chapter02/mounting.xml b/chapter02/mounting.xml index f222fb052..1c2e7205e 100644 --- a/chapter02/mounting.xml +++ b/chapter02/mounting.xml @@ -15,6 +15,11 @@ the file system is mounted at the directory specified by the <envar>LFS</envar> environment variable described in the previous section. </para> + + <para>Strictly speaking, one cannot "mount a partition". One mounts the <emphasis>file + system</emphasis> embedded in that partition. But since a single partition can't contain + more than one file system, people often speak of the partition and the + associated file system as if they were one and the same.</para> <para>Create the mount point and mount the LFS file system with these commands:</para> |