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How to
access our hard drive partition/drives ?
Mount Point
:
When we make available a hard drive/partition into a folder
is called mounting a folder
and in which folder/directory, where partition is mounted (made available) is
called mounting point
A mount point
is a physical location in the partition
used as a root filesystem. Many different types of storage exist, including
magnetic, magneto-optical, optical, and semiconductor (solid-state) drives.
Magnetic media are still the most common (as of 2012) and are available as
floppy and hard disk drives. Before any of them can be used for storage, the
means by which information is read and written must be organized and knowledge
of this must be available to the operating system. The organization is called a
filesystem. Each different filesystem provides the host operating system with
meta data so that it knows how to read and write data. When the medium (or
media, when the filesystem is a volume filesystem as in RAID arrays) is mounted,
this meta data is read by the operating system so that it can use the storage.
A mount point is a directory (typically an empty one) in the
currently accessible filesystem
on which an additional filesystem is mounted (i.e., logically attached).
A filesystem is a hierarchy of directories (also referred to
as a directory tree)
that is used to organize files on a computer system. On Linux and other Unix-like operating systems,
at the very top of this hierarchy is the root directory, which
contains all other directories on the system, inclusive of their
subdirectories, etc. A variant of this definition is the part of the entire
hierarchy of directories (i.e., of the directory tree) that is located on a
single partition or disk. A
partition is a logically independent section of a hard disk drive (HDD).
- Ø All drives in Linux are in /dev folder
- Ø /dev/hd is a folder which contains all IDE drives
- Ø 1 2 3 4 nos are reserved for primary partitions
Steps To mount a partition
1. Get the
disk address/ id by command Fdisk
–l
2. Make mount
point by command mkdir foldername
3. Type in Mount
device mount point name
4. To go to
mount point cd foldername
Click here for hard disk types
Hard Disk Drive
- It is a non-volatile storage device which
stores digitally encoded data on rapidly rotating platters with magnetic
surface.
Types
of HDD :
- IDE : Integrated Drive Electronics. IDE drives are also known as PATA drives( Parallel advance technology attachment )
- SATA : Serial advance technology attachment
- SCSI : Small Computer System Interface. SCSI is pronounced as scuzzy.
- SAS : Serial Attached SCSI
Linux Commands
To create folder mkdir foldername
If U want to give
space in folder name mkdir “foldername name”
To create more than one folders mkdir
folder1 name folder2 name folder3
name
3 cmds to logout exit / logout / Ctrl+d
To exit drive cd..
To open optical drive eject
To close optical drive eject –t
3 cmds to shutdown power off / halt /
To list all storage devices fdisk -l
