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Understanding Linux disk layouts - Linux Tutorial
From the course: Hands-On Linux: Build Real Command Line Confidence from Scratch
Understanding Linux disk layouts
Windows, you got the C drive, maybe the D drive. And that's about it. Linux does things completely different. There's no C drive, there's just a tree. Everything in Linux lives under one root directory, the forward slash, your hard drive, your USB stick, your second drive, they all got mounted somewhere inside that tree. Let's look at how it works. If we list the file system tree, you'll see a bunch of directories. As you can see here, are some of the directors that we went over in the previous video. So please watch that video before continuing. This layout is standard across basically every Linux distro is called the file system hierarchy standard. Once you know it, you can find your way around Linux systems. Let's talk about partitions. A hard drive can be split into partitions. Each partition is a separate chunk of storage that can be formatted and mounted independently. Let's see your partitions. If we type in Alice block, you can see that SDA is your whole disk, SDA1 and SDA2 If…
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