Surely I have gone mad ! You might think, what has Linux to do with horses ? Well Linux might not yet be running a robotic horse, though that too is not far, but Linux surely has got a lot to do with mounting. You see, mounting is the Linux phrase for getting the operating system to access your disks. This disk can be a floppy, a cdrom or a hard disk partition. To mount a disk , there are two necessary conditions The disk ( device ) must be one of the files in the /dev directory. The disk must be listed in the /etc/fstab ( or /etc/mtab sometimes ) file along with some extra information. By default when you install Linux, it is automatically configured to be able to access your floppy disks, cdrom and atleast one hard disk. Also every time you boot into linux, your swap and your root directory , the \'/\' directory are mounted. However there are times when you have stored some songs on your windows partition and you want to listen to them while running Linux, or maybe...