Hmmm, a lady bug just fell and got wedged between my r t and f keys. Weird.
I know mplayer isn't just GUI. I just forgot *shiftie eyes*. One day I used "mplayer" instead of "mpg123" and it worked. So I thought, "huh, neat." But I really didn't know that, so thanks!
Mount does not create a mount point. You or a program must create the mount point (folder). Typically, mount points are kept in the "/mnt" folder, just to keep things clean and consistant. If you would like linux to automatically mount a partition or other device at boot, you must add it to the fstab. To mount a partition manually, you need to "mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/Shared" or whater ever the device is followed by its mount point. If you have something like a USB drive or memory card reader and you would like to simply type "mount /mnt/USB" or what ever, you can add it to the fstab, but add the "noauto" option to it. If you would like a regular user (non root) to be able to mount it, add "user".
The swap partition is used as virtual memory. It's like the page file in windows. When there's not enough
RAM, information is stored in virtual memory. I have a gigabyte of
RAM and right now, 330MB are free, so the swap space is not being used at all. If I were running the Gimp with lots of pictures opened, enough to fill the
RAM, then the swap space would be used.
That reminds me, have you checked out The Gimp?
Now, I must goto bed, for I am tired and it's almost 1 in the f***ing morning, lol.