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Note that not every folder listed here or pictured above necessarily appears in every Linux distro, but most of them do. So using the above Linux file system chart, we need to explore what each folder in the Linux file system is for, which will help us to better understand how Linux works in general. These are actually pretty similar, but you can see where the differences lie.
#FOLDER STRUCTURE DIAGRAM PERSONAL WINDOWS#
The Linux equivalent of your Documents folder in Windows would be /home/username/Documents, whereas in Windows it’s typically C:\Users\UserName\Documents. So let’s take some other more practical examples.
![folder structure diagram personal folder structure diagram personal](https://d3i71xaburhd42.cloudfront.net/c1f775547317894cb800936def0e2dabc7d60f22/7-Figure3-1.png)
In Linux, on the other hand, the hard drive as represented merely as /dev/sda, which is really just a folder/directory, which in Linux is really just a file that points to other files. Or, more accurately, everything is represented as being a file, while in Windows it may be displayed as being a disk drive.įor example, in Windows the hard drive is typically represented as C:\ in the file explorer, and it will even display a little icon of the hard drive and display how much space is being used. Another thing to remember is that in Linux, everything is a file.