> hi!
> why can i delete MOUNTED partitions?
If you mean
mount -t ext2 /dev/hda4 /usr
rm /dev/hda4
It's because you're only removing the reference to the
inode (/dev/hda4) from the /dev directory inode.
You're never really doing anything to the inode that
/dev/hda4 refers to, only it's entry in /dev.
Is this what you were wondering?
-Shawn
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