If you want to get such practice, creating filesystems inside files on your disk and then mounting them is more convenient. https://askubuntu.com/questions/859

If you want to get such practice, creating filesystems inside files on your disk and then mounting them is more convenient. https://askubuntu.com/questions/85977/how-do-i-create-a-file-and-mount-it-as-a-filesystem https://askubuntu.com/questions/85977/how-do-i-create-a-file... should, I think, work on any Unix-like system. On the Mac, create .dmg files for extra convenience.