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A directory in a FileSystem that doesn't itself have any contents, but is used to [Mount] another FileSystem in its place. For example, your root file system __/__ must exist on one 'volume' (partition). If you have /usr on another hard disk, you create an empty directory called /usr on the first hard disk, and you [Mount] the file system on the second disk to that mount point. You can then access the files in the /usr. If you're unfamiliar with the standard Linux file layout, see FileSystemHierarchy. Mountpoints are generally defined in fstab(5) and handled by mount(8). !Common Exmamples ; __/cdrom__ and __/floppy__ : Linked to your floppy and CDROM drive (in fstab(5)), and empty until you put a disk in and mount it. ; __/mnt__ : A special case, __/mnt__ is a directory that is defined by the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard as the MountPoint for a temporarily mounted file system. This system is completely extensible - your filesystem can grow from / as far as it needs to grow. Compare DriveLetters (which can't grow past 24 'mount points').
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