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"Wont this show something like C:, D: as in Windows ? Why is it in a separate subfolder ?"
Windows has a seperate file system for each hard drive, cdrom, or floppy. So to find a file in Windows you have to know what device the file is on and begin the address with the device name.
Linux has a single file system that includes every file on every device. You insert an additional device into the Linux file system by mounting the file system(s) on that device on a folder(s) in the one huge Linux file system. Each partition on a hard drive is a file system. Once you have your vfat partition mounted on /user/local then it becomes a part of your overall file system and you simply access the files and folders in your vfat partition as /user/local/foldername/filename. Note: that you can have several different partitions on the same hard drive mounted on different folders. In fact, two partitions cannot be mounted on the same folder simultaneously.
Linux also takes care of the fact that different branches of the file system use different file formats. Your file system can be a mix of ext3, vfat, and iso9660 formats and Linux takes care of that automatically after you tell give Linux the system type in your mount command.
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Steve Stites
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