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What is the difference between Filesystem(device location) and Mounted point? both seems to be directory

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What is the difference between Filesystem(device location) and Mounted point? Both seems to be directory. Where does actual data/files of the mounted device reside? in filesystem or mount point? What is the use of mount point if actual data lives in Filesystem?

Error Output

#df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/xvda1             8256952    970228   7202856  12% /
tmpfs               …

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A (physical) file system is a disk or partition, formatted in a certain way, and containing data structures comprising directories and files. Every physical file system has a root directory indicated as in Linux. Now this structure maps to a logical…

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