Learning the Linux File System
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- Опубликовано: 7 июл 2024
- An introduction to the basic Linux file system and how to get around in it. If you'd like to know more about how I can help you get started with Linux then please check out www.ezeelinux.com
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Your vids are the reason I'm passing my tests, THANK YOU
Cool. Good luck! :)
You have a class on Linux? Or is it like computer organization?
I want to know what you're studying, too (same as VeryCoolStuff). I have considered pursuing some sort of Linux certification.
"thx for clicking the video" actually deserves a like
Why we can think like that! He might want to see, how many are actively learning right?
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!
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.
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.
Best howto and tutorial I ever imagined. VERY useful. Even after 7 years of linux
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 ~".
THANKS for this lucid description AND with the comparison to Windows locations. Been wondering about these folder purposes for years, now it's clear!!!
That was the single most useful presentation on Linux I've ever watched. Thanks!
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.
Exactly. I'm glad someone called this out.
since i kinda use a setup like that now it's like nothing changed lol
Very educating. As i am from windows background.
I bet there were arguments to move the usr/something directories to the third disk and leave the original user data in /usr. I'm a little surprised they didn't do that.
@@lanceareadbhar These types of arguments are proof of the problems that will ensure Linux will never go mainstream.
Very help intro. You and Chris Titus are helping me feel comfortable enough to try and start using Linux as a daily driver.
I love your videos! I've learned so much about Linux from just your channel alone.
Thx much! Dove headfirst into learning Linux 2 yrs ago & left w/headache. Wanna get back in the game, but at slower pace. Your xplination was great!
One video at a time the foundation is built. Thanks Joe!
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.
20+ years and I finally know what the hell USR means! (DOOP)
I came here just for that. I always thought it was user.
its not?! I've just began watching lol
okay now I know; universal system resources; haha
Yes me too
Bahahahaha shit I was just about to write a douchey comment saying how the hell did you not know usr = user !!! Glad i watched the video first, ive always thought it was user since the first time I used a linux distro!! lol
Hi Joe,Thanks so much! Good teaching!
+Cheweetina1 Thanks for watching. :)
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
I've been using linux for 5 days now, useful video. Thank You!
I’ve see this a few times but it still applies and helps me remember these. Thanks again Joe! Good help
Found this a really interesting and useful video. I don't get to use my Linux PC much as it's still at my parents house, but I'm loving learning how to use Linux and the differences with Windows. Many thanks for the great videos Joe!
Thanks for making this video . A perfect review for how Linux file system works.
Thanks Joe. You give me hope that I could still learn LINUX.
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.
thanks! One of the longest youtube videos that I have watched, but switching form windows to ubuntu this helped a lot
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.
I have been using open source operating systems since Mandrake/Mandriva and MEPIS. I have not understood directory structures until now. Thank you Joe Collins!
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.
Finally, someone who "reviews" linux, and actually uses it at as DESKTOP OS, OMG.
Sounds like that kind of person is your Arch nemesis!
@Steven Tsakiris Scratch that, I'm gonna go eat a Mint.
Why not? I'm even using it on my phone.
@IHasNoLife Productions dammit Karen!
@IHasNoLife Productions Not a big fan of mints, so I'll just go off into the solus system.
Clear words with clear concepts. Appreciated!
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)
Have watched quite a few of your vid's in the past. I posted on another vid of yours yesterday. I 've just installed mate 16.04 on my laptop. I have a lot to learn about linux. Your vid's are really informative. Learning lots from you. :)
As some whom has a decent PC background but is new to Linux, I found this very useful. New subscriber.
Just getting started on UNIX and Linux and am I glad I landed here first :) Thank you !!!
Nice explanation about contents of Linux directories, mounting in Linux, filenames being case-sensitive, hidden files that have dot at the beginning plus Samba
Been looking for a proper explanation of each directory and its function for quite a bit. Thanks.
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*
I just dual partitioned Linux Mint 18, can't wait to get stuck in!
I will try to access to Linux Arch!
James O'Morain man info is good? Cathedral bazar? Git? Debuggers? EMacs?lisp?python? Eric Idle?monte Carlos?
Hadoop?
How did it go, did it meet your expectations?
@5:42 - i heard myself go "OH! cool background!" without realizing it lol
great video. very clear.
Thanks for all these tutorials. They are truly special.
hi I have been a pc user for 30 years on windows, and been using ubuntu for 5 yrs now thanks for this info all my family didnt like idea of switch to linux at the start but use it every day now, videos like this offer small bits of info to us that we can take on board easily and we don't feel things are to hard to understand, thanks
I am learning Linux & this is very helpful. Thank you very much. Please keep up the outstanding work! Take care.
Nicely done Joe. Keep up the good work.
Much appreciated a nice little primer and refresher
Great Joe & Cindy ..very helpful for those using this.
That was a great demonstration! of the Linux filing system Joe.
Nice and clear, and it's useful for 90+% Linux users. Thanks!
Your way of teaching is Great...Thanks a lot Joe.
I learned a few things from this video. Thanks!
Thanks a ton, I love videos like these that just help people out or teach ya something.
Please do more videos Joe this was brilliant
I am a Linux new user. This class was very helpful for me to understand a lot of things. I really appreciate your help. Also I will like to learn more so I can switch completely to Linux. Right now I have all my computers dual boot with Linux distros. Ubuntu Studio, MX Linux, Fedora and a Virtual Box with Kali. I been investing more than 4 hours daily to learn more about programming and working on Linux environment. There's only one thing I have not make work on Linux, that is Spectrum TV app and Netflix all because of flash player. Thanks.
Such a well thought out and put together video, my god. thank you for taking the time to create this. I have watched other paid videos and none provide as much detail as this ! Very easy to understand with great windows to Linux comparisons !!!
your simple instruction and teaching simply awesome!
I really enjoyed this tutorial. you took away the scary element of learning Linux and made it easier for me understand..Cheers
Currently training for my A+ 1002 and was really struggling with Linux since I have no experience with it. This was unbelievably helpful
Wow, so much useful infomation. Thank you. Keep up the good work!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. You make it more simple for us beginners.
"you just blew up the whole town man"😂.. Thanks this video really informative
this was way more entertaining than it should have been ty
Thanks Joe it was interesting was absorbing and keeping a listener feel at home.
Awesome video! Thanks man, you helped me a lot understanding the file system in Linux OS.
Great stuff! Gonna rewatch a few times.
Thanks for the videos. Love your teaching style.
Watching this after watching Benno Joy's anatomy of file systems has been incredibly educational.
Thanks!
Watching this tutorial with old Ubuntu's unity desktop brings a lot of nostalgia.
I just started my school. Nice, was really useful. Thanks man )
Just for the record - Windows can also mount hard drives, folders and network shares as if they were folders on your main drive. It's discouraged because it's far more common with Windows systems to have removable drives and it's easy to forget that it's a drive when you do a mount point. But if you have a multi-drive system where the drives are fixed in the system, that's fine.
I always knew it was possible in Windows... well... I have since Windows3 (I think?)... I was just cautioned against it because Windows had a tendency to be too stupid to still treat it as a drive (like being able to stop it before you unplug the thing on an external)... and you could lose your data. :o)
Actually, Windows will not allow you to map a drive marked as removable by default.
The fact that Unix was made for colorblind people is why Linux GUIs are needed by the fully-sighted to do file operation- so the folder avatars can be adorned with icons that always visually show in a glance the removability of a drive.
very very very useful vefio for the new linux user who moved from windows....thanks for explaining it so well!!
Cool I've been using Linux for years and didn't know what most of the abbreviations in / directory meant, thanks for the info.
There is so many relevant things i needed to know in that video of course including the main subject. Started very recently on Manjaro and like it as much as i thought id do and more since i knew almost nothing. I like how the Linux community is really dedicated and motivate in helping and sharing the OS. Of course that kind of thing has to ( cause its the same thing everywhere ) cause trouble among ppls sometime making " Linux folks " looking like they're always bickering and fighting against each other on the " how to " . Obviously its not true and YES sometime being presented aspects in a more simplistic manner is infinitely more practical then absolute precise facts. As long as the idea reflect the point its all good. Anyway we'll get there and figure soon enough if something had been explain simplified. Easier for the help and the helped. Awesome video , the longest 5 secs of my life before you change that " Y " but it was worth it ! Blow em all !!! XD
Thank you. You make a wonderful teacher.
It is accepted that Linux is based on Unix. The directory name /usr is based on the word user, not Universal System Resource. In early Unix systems it was where you stored your files (/home didn't exist).; See page 48 of The Unix Programming Environment by Kernighan & Pike
Very helpful video. 👍 I played around with Linux Puppy a few years ago but was intimidated by it. I'm now using Linux MX (alongside Win 7) so I want to actually understand it. This was a big help for me.
4:15 but linux does have a similar system to window's letter naming. ex: sda1, s would be sata/ssc drive, a is first, and 1 meaning the partition.
Great video, thanks a bunch :D
Excellent intro. Ditto on usr :) Please give us some more :)
thank you very much , you helped me alot to better understand the system all your tutorials are so easy to be understood even if english is not my mother language
but thanks to you i can deal with linux the easiest way possible
thank you again a please keep up the great work :)
Sidi Hamza Thanks. I try to keep it easy. Linux is actually a very simple and logical system but it's not always presented that way. :)
lol, "why didn't anyone tell me I did that?! Gee. " too funny. great video. I did not get bored!
Very good basic explanation. Thanks
Very helpful for a Linux newbie like me. Thanks.
Great easy to follow tutorial, thank you 🙂
Good content along with proper explanation
Greetings and salutations to you too! Great video mate!
I leaned today to log on as root and delete everything :-) Good video!
Great video man! Good work!
Thank you for this video, helpful for beginner Linux users
Thanks for the refresher course.
very nice video. I'm just learning linux. I'm having difficulties in several areas, and with several things. I've decided to start from the beginning. This video was very good. I wrote 4 pages of notes. every word I did not know was written.... obfuscation.. damn you. But really thank you.
Obfuscation - confusing for the sake of being confusing
ugh....
Very helpful content. Thank you.
Thanks for the explain on touch command. Very cool.
Great video!! I like your layout.
Great breakdown!
Great Video ! Thank you Joe
Excellent explanation!
"Lets call this folder USR, nobody will be confused by that!" ;) And PWD? Is it just me who thinks this should have something to do with passwords? ROOT isn't the root. This could be why Windows people get confused by Linux. Someone didn't have their head screwed on straight when they named some of these things. ;)
Still, a handy video, finally helped me with some of these things. I still feel the operating system is overly paranoid when it comes to constant password prompts, but given the history, I understand it.
It is present working directory.
Doesn't really matter if people get confused by USR...if you don't know what it means, you're also not very likely to be fooling around in it anyway.
Neil Roy Computers didn't have passwords when pwd was named ;)
Palunon I remember them having passwords. I guess it depends on the system you used back then. But Linux? No passwords? I find that VERY hard to believe. ;)
Neil Roy Not Linux, but very early Unix. A lot of mainframes back then didn't use passwords, especially in places like the MIT and Bell Labs.
We're talking somewhere between 1969 and 1973, not the 80's... At the time, Print Working Directory was a nice name.
Superb teaching !
Thanks, a lot for information and for your free Effort and works
Very well explained, thanks! :)
Thanks man! Learned many things new!