Where is is my C:\ disk ??

[viking60]

When you are in a command window (CMD) in windows you can see your working directory or working drive by typing

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cd

.
This will show you the letter of your drive (typically C:\) and your path.

To further explore the contents of your current path you can type

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dir

to see the contents.

cd stands for change directory or folder.

Executing the cd command with no arguments does behave different in Linux and Windows:

Windows = shows your current working folder and path
Linux = goes to your home directory
"cd" in Windows = "pwd" in Linux.

you can go "back" in both systems by typing

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cd ..

The one thing that Windows users will miss the most is the drive letter C:\

You will not find it in Linux.

In Linux C:\ = /

Yes - no letter; simply a slash

This takes some getting used to.

[R_Head]

I know... forgot most of the commands since I do not work IT any more. Used to be good on UNIX, you know how that goes, you do not use it, you are going to loose it.

What about the B Drive... B:\

[viking60]

That would be the good old slot for the diskette.
I do still have it here.

This gives me the opportunity to explain how to find the storing space in Linux:

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lsblk

Will show all your disks:

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NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sr0     11:0    1   1,8G  0 rom  /run/media/viking/viking,iso
fd0      2:0    1     4K  0 disk
sda      8:0    0 931,5G  0 disk
sda2   8:2    0     1K  0 part
sda5   8:5    0  48,6G  0 part /
sda1   8:1    0 484,5G  0 part
sda6   8:6    0 398,5G  0 part /home


This is probably not as intuitive as C:\ D:\ and B:\ and to confuse our Windows using friends we have to bring in something called mount point.

This shows that my "C:/" is on sda5 and that "My Documents" are on sda6 (/home)

My B:/ is on fdo and is simply called "disk".

It takes some getting used to when you come from Windows since we rarely talk about disks and partitions there.

It might be easier for our Windows using friends to type:

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fdisk -l

It will look like this:

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 fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 931,5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x997da8cd

Device     Boot      Start        End    Sectors   Size Id Type
/dev/sda1  *          2048 1016078335 1016076288 484,5G  7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2       1016079120 1953520064  937440945   447G  5 Extended
/dev/sda5       1016080384 1117899089  101818706  48,6G 83 Linux
/dev/sda6       1117900800 1953519615  835618816 398,5G 83 Linux