From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 10 12:48:49 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A10A16A4E0 for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 12:48:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de) Received: from smtprelay03.ispgateway.de (smtprelay03.ispgateway.de [80.67.18.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9588C43D46 for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 12:48:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de) Received: (qmail 24186 invoked from network); 10 Jul 2006 12:48:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (775067@[217.50.129.182]) (envelope-sender ) by smtprelay03.ispgateway.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 10 Jul 2006 12:48:44 -0000 Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:48:42 +0200 From: Fabian Keil To: rs Message-ID: <20060710144842.53212751@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1186771768.20060710132405@pswl.com> References: <1186771768.20060710132405@pswl.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.3.1 (GTK+ 2.8.19; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) X-PGP-KEY-URL: http://www.fabiankeil.de/gpg-keys/freebsd-listen-2006-08-19.asc Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_TU09/cgqt5pxVgUtR5BjE1="; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Mounting a drive" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 12:48:49 -0000 --Sig_TU09/cgqt5pxVgUtR5BjE1= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable rs wrote: > Could someone explain exactly what is meant by "mounting" a disk. I > understand that it is making a disk available for use, but would like > to understand the implications of the term and what abilities it > confers. =20 > Part of the purpose of the question is that I am trying to find out > how I can have more partitions and detachable drives than there are > letters in the alphabet. FreeBSD has no "number of letters in the alphabet" limitation. Are you aware of the fact that this isn't a Windows specific mailing list? Fabian --=20 http://www.fabiankeil.de/ --Sig_TU09/cgqt5pxVgUtR5BjE1= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEskyqjV8GA4rMKUQRAv+qAJ47ovd+3CR3vSIljAoPPdVQaBCekQCgrKJd hd9mN2s1qSrRzPZie91Noa4= =tEwH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_TU09/cgqt5pxVgUtR5BjE1=--