What Does the Mount used for ?what does they mean?

Question

I have dual boot many time normally i use / As / is the Top of hierarchical model of OS what does other like :-

/boot

/home

/tmp

/usr

/var

/srv

/opt

/urs/local

used for ? What are meaning of these ?

Answer 1

Roughly speaking these all are basically different directories of your system. Each directory is created for different purposes. For example

/boot - To store boot related files, grub config files etc

/home - user home directory all users data is stored under this directory

and so on..you can get the complete list from google.

The root directory i.e. / directory is the parent of all these directories.The / directory contains all these directories.

While installing if you select / as a mount point then a single partition is created for / directory and hence all these directories will be created in that partition but sometimes it is preferred to create separate partitions for some directories like /boot, /home etc. because it helps while reinstalling or updating the system.

Hence if you want to create the separate partition for /boot you just create 3 patitions(1 swap, 1 for / and 1 for /boot) and for 3rd partition you select /boot as the mount point.

I hope this clears your doubts!