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the file system is mounted at the directory specified by the
<envar>LFS</envar> environment variable described in the previous section.
</para>
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+ <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>