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A mount point is a location in the partition used as a root filesystem. Many different types of storage exist, including magnetic, magneto-optical, optical, and semiconductor (solid-state) drives. Many different types of storage exist, including magnetic, magneto-optical, optical, and semiconductor (solid-state) drives.
In the Plan 9 operating system from Bell Labs (mid-1980s onward), union mounting is a central concept, replacing several older Unix conventions with union directories; for example, several directories containing executables, unioned together at a single /bin directory, replace the PATH variable for command lookup in the shell.
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