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. File system??”Point to the device partition you are mounting. Floppy disks are, by
default, /dev/fd0. This information is set by and retrievable from /etc/fstab (see
the section on /fstab later in the chapter).
. Mount point??”Where fstab actually looks for the files. In this case, /media/floppy.
It is a good idea to have all your peripheral file systems (floppy drives, hard drives, USB
and serial-port file storage devices, CD-ROM, DVD, and CD-RW drives) connected when
you install openSUSE Linux. Why? YaST can then identify all these devices and build your
/etc/fstab file automatically.
The umount Command
Most of the time after you have mounted a hard drive or partition, you??™ll keep it
mounted. You??™re always accessing it. Removable storage media are different; you??™ll often
pop one in, work on files (or copy/move them to your hard drive), and pop it out again.
In Linux, this is a little more complicated process.
After you have mounted a floppy as described in the last section, before you can put
another floppy in the drive, you must unmount the drive.


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