Linux lovers love to mount
Its true. Linux lovers love to mount. Mounting things is part and parcel of a linux lovers life. They mount everything. Now before you get the wrong idea I wish to specify that I am talking about the mount command that is part of linux based systems.
The mount command is probably the most important program in a linux system. Without the mount command a linux system will not even boot. After the system is booted the mount command is used for everything from reading hard disk partitions to cd's and usb disks. It can do more.
When the boot loader first loads up a linux kernel it goes directly to the kernels address on the hard disk and runs what it finds there. If your system is not totally borked then it will find a kernel and run that. The boot loader has no knowledge of any other file and no interest either. It does however tell the kernel which partition it needs to mount to continue loading. The kernel looks in that partition for the mount program and then mounts the partition for init to be run. A lot of people say that init is the most important program after the kernel but I disagree. I think it is the mount program. Without mount the kernel will never get past its pre-loading stage.
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