Quote Originally Posted by WilyPython
Are /boot and /proc partitions or directories?
Ok. i see - it's a little bit confusing if you just arrived from the windows world.

In Linux you mount partitions to directorys. The root partition for example is mounted to / (that's why it is called root). The boot partition is mounted to the directory /boot (if there is no boot partition /boot is just a directory in your root partition). An /home partition (if you've got one) is mounted to /home...

I think you've got the idea.