Learning the Linux File System

[xyzzx]

Your vids are the reason I'm passing my tests, THANK YOU

[residentdog]

"thx for clicking the video" actually deserves a like

[MrHatoi]

Years ago when I was starting out with Linux this video helped me so much... It just came up in my recommended and watching it is bringing back so many memories. Great video!

[jndominica]

As a Windows user, I find this directory structure more logical and compact. No problems with spaces in file names, the directory tree is shallow, system, users, temp and caches are separate and movable instead of buried into one another.

[briandague]

Thank you for making this video, very informative about how to work with files in linux. Using the "touch" command to create a bunch of files while showing them open in the file browser is a great way of showing that the command-line and GUI are interacting with the same system. Neat little trick: If you want to get to the home directory, you can just type "cd", no need to type
"cd ~".

[jcallen]

This video was recommended by my Linux instructor in my Intro to UNIX/Linux class and it was well worth the time. Thank you very much for a thorough explanation as well as the visual confirmation showing the file creations populating in the GUI from the CLI. Subscribed.

[jmtikka]

The original Unix system had two disks: one for the operating system (/) and the other for user home directories (/usr). When the operating system grew they had to move some stuff over to the other disks and so the various /usr/someting directories were born. At some point they could afford a third disk and then the user home directories were moved from /usr to /home.

So "Unix System Resourses" and such are such backronyms with no actual meaning. The /usr directory was the original place for the home directories but the letters 'u', 's' and 'r' soon lost their original meaning.

[dehydratedwatr]

Im going to comment here because the actual video that inspired my switch has comments turned off.
Thank you joe. You inspired me to make the switch to linux full time and I love it. Im still a beginner but now im 18 months in and thanks to what I learned from your channel, ive gotten to where I prefer to boot straight into the command line and my friends and family look at me like I'm a super nerd. I got called turbo brain today and all i wasn't doing was putting mint iso's on some flash drives to give to a friend who's laptop's resources wont allow him to run windows 8.

[nicoc]

Last night I watched bash commands and was an excellent class, great teacher you are! I’ll keep watching since you explain concepts very clearly. Thanks a lot. Got subscribed.

[jeffreyplum]

One reason for so many directories was that Unix came from an era of tiny disks, by today's standards. One or a few important directories could fill a disk. Directories like /home, /var and even /tmp, could need their own disks. It also allowed core system programs to be kept on syste m disks, often write protected. Data files were kept on their one disks. The Unix tree structure allowed the same overall structure to be common, while their may be one disk or dozens. Disks were physically larger, while not hold near as much data. They also could damage themselves rather easily. The file tree shows directories needed to start, run and fix the system are kept apart from common user programs. A nice video. thanks.

[jahtemg_]

Finally, someone who "reviews" linux, and actually uses it at as DESKTOP OS, OMG.

[hotshot]

great guide! i've been using linux for more than 10 years and from this video, i just found out that the USR directory doesn't mean user....wow! *Mind Blown*

[tombouie]

Very enlightening/enjoyable intro to linux filesys. Linux is like going for a ice cold swim. Until you get all the way in & really get all warmed up, it's absolutely mind numbing.

[dima]

Best howto and tutorial I ever imagined. VERY useful. Even after 7 years of linux

[Bring_MeSunshine]

Brilliant Joe. I'm already knee deep into Linux, with Ubuntu, Fedora on physical machines and Kali and CentOS on VMs, but in all the tutorial stuff I have or have seen, no one has taken the time to introduce the file system in this way. I think they assume if you have your ass in gear enough to want to even try Linux, you must be aware, but it's not the case. OK, I have learnt a few things, but it's good to have another insight. Cheers

[ryan.]

I just dual partitioned Linux Mint 18, can't wait to get stuck in!

[marcdraco]

20+ years and I finally know what the hell USR means! (DOOP)

[PoeLemic]

Very help intro. You and Chris Titus are helping me feel comfortable enough to try and start using Linux as a daily driver.

[EDreyer]

thanks! One of the longest youtube videos that I have watched, but switching form windows to ubuntu this helped a lot

[RealGengarTV]

From a long time windows/dos user (win 3.11) THANK YOU SO MUCH! I've always scratched my head when I dabbled in the linux file indexing system (that's what I call it so I don't confuse it with file system such as NTFS and EXT4)