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Managing filesystem types

Mounting filesystems from a diskette

It is common for small filesystems to be contained completely on a single floppy diskette. You can define filesystems on diskette and use them either for storage or for live access. Using a diskette (rather than a hard disk) for live access has the following two disadvantages:

It is common for users to copy a filesystem on a diskette to a directory on a hard disk. To do that, the filesystem must first be mounted. A user who plans to establish a filesystem that can be brought in from diskettes first needs to create two directories on the hard disk:
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