At first, the Linux filesystem seems confusing for linoobs. But don’t worry, here is a quick guide to understand Linux (Ubuntu) Filesystem. The Linux Filesystem is very organized and easy to understand. The first thing you should know when working with linux, is that everything is treated as either a file or directory. Even hardware is considered a file by linux and all your hardware devices are located in the /dev directory. Another thing that confuses windows users, is the fact that linux doesn’t use drive letters to distinguish between different partitions and devices. The ‘root’ of your filesystem is ‘/’ whereas in windows it would most probably be C:\ . Drives in linux are “mounted” to directories where their data can then be accessed.

Sounds strange right? Well yes it does if you come from a windows environment, where the entire operating system is consolidated onto a single drive. However, with linux and the ability to mount devices as directories, it gives the end user much greater flexibility in splitting up their operating system over several drives or partitions. Here we go -

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