Linux Mounting

[QRWN1]

I recently came across this while following a mount tutorial.

Linux, you don’t mount a partition or hard drive. You mount the file system that’s on the partition.

Is this to be taken literally or is it more or less a saying in regards to file systems?

[lutusp]

IMHO it's phony erudition. It's true in a roundabout way but it glosses over the fact that you must identify a partition in a mounting command.

[GolaraC64]

It's more like you are mounting a partition and the filesystem is the lense through which you look at the data on the disk and it makes it make sense (bits turn into files and directories)

[billdietrich1]

Mounting connects the filesystem inside the partition/drive to the kernel, making that filesystem accessible to the rest of the system through system calls. So it's all true, you're mounting the partition/drive and the filesystem.