Merciadri Luca wrote: > First, I always found the `mount point' expression weird in this > context, because, for me, the mount point _is_ always the partition, > during the installation, but this is not the problem. You have this common terminology exactly backwards. One mounts /dev/hda1 on mount point / or /dev/sdb5 on mount point /home; one does not mount /home on /dev/sdb5. HTH :-) I fixed the next paragraph for you: | The biggest problem is that you are able to choose between, say, `/', | `/var/', '/usr/', `/home/', etc. But, without thinking a lot, `/' | *habitually* contains the rest. So, mounting say hda1 `/`, and | hdb1 on `/home/` could appear as weird for the user, at first glance (only). > I'm here speaking about users who're not beginners, > but who want to understand the distinction the Debian installer makes > between the `/' as it is normally in Linux filesystems, and the `/' in > the installation process, which is actually everything except what was > asked to be put on other partitions. The mental model that most non-beginners should have is that the system's root is / , which is where some system disk is mounted, and that additional disks are mounted to other mount points in the tree. The disk mounted at / is not a special case in not containing everything under / -- the disk mounted on /home does not necessarily contain everything under /home either. (I may have another (larger) disk mounted on /home/joey.) Everything said in the installation process should be consistent with that. Of course, the installer doesn't require users understand this stuff either. But I think you're making it seem more complicated than it is. -- see shy jo
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