Disk Drives

en_GB Disk Drives http://tobyinkster.co.uk/article/tutorial-disks/ ==== Copyright © 2003 Toby A Inkster. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled <a href="http://www.fsf.org/licenses/fdl.html">“GNU Free Documentation License”</a>. <hr> 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…