Understanding the Linux Filesystem
With all that path typing, navigating, and bookmarking you've just been learning, you should pretty much be able to figure out how to get from here to there in your home folder. Still, it is probably a good idea to know where your home folder actually is in the scheme of things, just in case you manage to get yourself really lost someday. To understand this, you should have a basic understanding of the Linux filesystem which, as you will find, is a bit different from what you were accustomed to in your previous operating system.
Unlike Windows, the Linux filesystem all stems from a single point called root and is represented by a solitary forward slash (/). Your own user account folder is located within a subfolder ...
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