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==Introduction== | ==Introduction== | ||
− | The Ghost/<q>FreeBSD directory hierarchy is fundamental to obtaining an overall understanding of the system. The most important directory is root or, “/”. This directory is the first one mounted at boot time and it contains the base system necessary to prepare the operating system for multi-user operation. The root directory also contains mount points for other file systems that are mounted during the transition to multi-user operation.</q> | + | The Ghost/<q>FreeBSD directory hierarchy is fundamental to obtaining an overall understanding of the system. The most important directory is root or, “/”. This directory is the first one mounted at boot time and it contains the base system necessary to prepare the operating system for multi-user operation. The root directory also contains mount points for other file systems that are mounted during the transition to multi-user operation.</q> |
− | A mount point is a directory where additional file systems can be | + | A mount point is a directory where additional file systems can be grafted onto a parent file system (usually the root file system). This is further described in FreeBSD Handbook Section 3.6, [https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/disk-organization.html “Disk Organization”]. |
See also [[Standard Mount Points]]. | See also [[Standard Mount Points]]. |