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The root directory “/” (which should not be confused with the “/root” directory, which is where the user “root” should keep its files!) is more
or less the equivalent of “C:” in Windows — it’s where everything lives.
In Windows, floppy disks, CD-ROMs and other hard disks are entirely seperate from “C:”. In Linux (and other versions of Unix), to access other
disks we graft them onto the main file system — this is called “mounting”
them.
So, for example, you probably have an…"