[svlug] Creating a mount point

[Ray Olszewski]

A mount point is just an ordinary directory entry, created with mkdir. 

The "standard" mount points for /dev/fd0 and /dev/cdrom may vary by
distribution (Slackware, for example, uses /mnt for the floppy drive, /cdrom
for the CD), but there is nothing special about them. When nothing is
mounted to one, it is just a regular directory, capable of holding files,
subdirectories, etc., like any old directory. 

So you just need to do something like this:

mkdir /mnt/samba

to have a mount point for smbmount (or, for example, the nfs mounter) to use.

At 12:36 PM 11/28/98 -0800, Rahim Valiani wrote:
>I am curious as to how the /mnt/cdrom and so forth are thre even when
>you do not have the device mounted....
>
>I was using smbmount, and it needs a mount point... for now I used
>/mnt/floppy but was curious as to weather I could create new mount point
>on my own...
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