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| Authored by: Ian Al on Wednesday, April 03 2013 @ 02:11 AM EDT |
It took me ages to come to grips with Linux and Unix mounts. My multiple Linux
machines cannot have a shared /home mount because each window manager uses the
/home mount for user settings. The settings for each window manager, fight. In
fact, I have come a cropper by keeping the /home directory during a distribution
upgrade with the old settings discombobulating the new installation.
I have a single creative content partition on each machine that is used by all
installed OSs, including Windows (if any). That partition is included as an
fstab mount in each Linux installation /home/user directory.
That's when I realised what Bill does. Everything that Windows recognises is
mounted somewhere. The root is 'My Computer' and everything is mounted there as
the OS boots or when removable storage is added.
Whereas Linux has a physical partition as root, Windows has a virtual partition.
Linux mounts media at the /mnt or /media depending on distribution. It only
mounts drives at user request.
Windows mounts physical partitions at the virtual 'My Computer' including the
C: drive. Windows mounts sub-directories on desktop mount points for 'My
Documents', 'My Music' etc. Windows 7 includes virtual mount points for multiple
sub-directory mounts. What could possibly go wrong!
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Regards
Ian Al
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