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Old 06-13-2006, 05:07 PM   #1 (permalink)
 
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Default Mounted Volumes

Can someone please explain mounted volumes in lehmans terms and where they would be used in the real world.

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Mounting, in computer science, is the process of making a file system ready for use by the operating system, typically by reading certain index data structures from storage into memory ahead of time.
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