From the course: Introduction to Linux
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The Linux file system - Linux Tutorial
From the course: Introduction to Linux
The Linux file system
- [Instructor] To store data on a Linux system, we use files, and files are organized into directories or folders as they are on other operating systems. These files and directories make up the file system. In order to organize files consistently on Linux systems, most distributions follow the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, or FHS. This standard makes it possible for us to switch between distributions easily and to use unfamiliar distributions without having to spend a lot of time looking in different places on different systems for files we need. Though if you're coming to Linux from another operating system, it can take awhile to get used to how files are organized. In the Linux file system, everything starts with the file system root, which is represented by a single slash. On a Linux system, there's only one file system root. Even if we plug in other storage devices, those become part of the overall file system and aren't represented as separate file systems, like we might be used…
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