I thought that a live O.S. had to mount which ever files so it could access them using the file system of the file wanted to view.
What if there's something wrong with your disk -- would you really want it to try and mount it? Wouldn't you rather it boot itself into a stable state where you can do what you want, instead of making unsafe assumptions about your system?
It doesn't know what belongs where, either. Your /etc/fstab is usually what tells it so, and not having been booted off the same drive, it doesn't have your usual one.
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If I just boot System rescue it displays dummy files
I don't understand what you mean by "dummy files".
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and I was informed that I had to mount what I wanted access to.
mounting is what turns a disk device into a folder full of files. Most UNIX/Linux systems don't bother mounting filesystems they don't recognize -- i.e. aren't listed in /etc/fstab. It has no idea what folder they belong in after all.
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I don't understand mounting as well as I should.
My above sentence pretty much covers it.
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I use Redhats (Disk_Utility)
Partition editing has nothing to do with it. You never edit partitions in the normal course of accessing your data.
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so I imagine that I must do this manually for mounting or accessing files that are not part of the running O.S?
No, to mount a partition, you mount it. It is done via the unguessably secret and hidden command name of 'mount'.
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