Mount Amara

Mount Amara was a mountain in Ethiopia reported by early European explorers including Francisco Álvares, which entered the imagination of John Milton's description of Paradise that appeared in Paradise Lost and Coleridge and many other poets. The mountain, at least in Samuel Purchas's Purchas, His Pilgrimage, which Pakenham (1959) believes inspired Milton, is possibly to be identified with Amba Geshen among the list of mountains in Ethiopia.

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Mount

Mount may refer to:

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Mount (computing)

Mounting takes place before a computer can use any kind of storage device (such as a hard drive, CD-ROM, or network share). The user or their operating system must make it accessible through the computer's file system. A user can only access files on mounted media.

Overview

A mount point is a physical 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. As of 2013, magnetic media are still the most common and are available as hard disk drives and, less frequently, floppy disks. Before any of them can be used for storage, the means by which information is read and written must be organized and knowledge of this must be available to the operating system. The organization is called a filesystem. Each different filesystem provides the host operating system with metadata so that it knows how to read and write data. When the medium (or media, when the filesystem is a volume filesystem as in RAID arrays) is mounted, this metadata is read by the operating system so that it can use the storage.

Mount (surname)

Mount is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

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