OK I HAVE OPENED LINUX FILE DIRECTORY . WHAT AM I SEEING?
After opening FILE SYSTEM DIRECTORY above directory will be found.
Unlike windows/Mac, Linux considers directories or even computer's hard drive to be files.
ROOT : Here in the above picture you will find a folder name root. This folder is administrator's HOME directory. In Linux administrator means SU or superuser or root user. Hence root folder is for administrator.
USR : "usr" directory contains user's application and all the files which need to run those applications. It is the biggest directory in the file system.
./local : it is used to locate application installed for local user
./sbin : It contains essential system applications.
ETC : "etc" stores your configuration file of linux system and other softwares. Most of them are text files and can be opened using text editor.
DEV : "dev" directory has device files in it. I have told you before that in linux devices are treated as files and devices can be written as files. Those written files are found in the /dev folder. For example: mouse, keyboard,printers files would be found here.
MNT : "mnt" means mount. "mnt" shows physical storage devices such as hard drive, DVD-ROMs etc.
LOST + FOUND : "lost and found" directory shows all the system restored files which either lost or accidentally deleted.
MEDIA : "media" folder contains removable media's drives or documents.
BOOT : "boot" contains system files including kernel and boot files.
HOME : "home" contains user home directory. It contains each user account's folder.
I have tried my best to give an understanding. Keep in touch. More will come later. Thanks for reading this.
