CIS 3355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Virtual Directory, Disk Partitioning
18 Dec 2020
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Documents, which is located in the directory rich: the rich directory is contained under the directory users, which is located on the hard disk partition assigned the letter c (usually the first hard drive on the pc). For example, the linux filepath /home/rich/documents/test. doc indicates that the file test. doc is in the directory documents, under the directory rich, which is contained in the directory home. It doesn"t provide any information as to which physical disk on the. Linux uses a forward slash (/) instead of a backward slash (\) to denote directories in filepaths. In linux, the first hard drive installed in a linux pc is called the root drive. The root drive contains the core of the virtual directory. On the root drive, linux creates directories called mount points, which are directories in the virtual directory where you assign additional storage devices.
