By now you have a dual boot system, and your windows partitions are still alive. You will have images, documents or videos that you might want to access from Linux. However, when you try to look for the windows partition, you will not find it! Whatever happened to it, you might ask. Well, you might first “mount” those partitions onto the Linux filesystem. In the computer world, mounting means making accessible to the system a filesystem(or any data0. you might ask, while windows automatically shows you all partitions, why doesn’t Linux?
Basically, the way Windows and Linux deal with files and partitions is different. Windows recognizes and clearly demarcates partitions at boot. Linux works differently: unless you mount a partition or a device, the system does now know of the existence of that partition or device. You cannot make files of one partition appear as part of another. This layout, called a unified filesystem, allows files from one drive to appear as part of another. Hence you need to mount the partition you wish to access, to a mount point. A mount point is the directory to which the partition appears in the mount point.
Basically, the way Windows and Linux deal with files and partitions is different. Windows recognizes and clearly demarcates partitions at boot. Linux works differently: unless you mount a partition or a device, the system does now know of the existence of that partition or device. You cannot make files of one partition appear as part of another. This layout, called a unified filesystem, allows files from one drive to appear as part of another. Hence you need to mount the partition you wish to access, to a mount point. A mount point is the directory to which the partition appears in the mount point.
