Linux Basics for Hackers

10FILESYSTEM AND STORAGE DEVICE MANAGEMENT

If you are coming from a Windows environment, the way that Linux represents and manages storage devices will look rather different to you. You’ve already seen that the filesystem has no physical representation of the drive, like the C:, D:, or E: system in Windows, but rather has a file tree structure with / at the top, or root, of it. This chapter takes a look at how Linux represents storage devices such as hard drives, flash drives, and other storage devices.

We first look how additional drives and other storage devices are mounted upon that filesystem, leading up to the / (root) directory. Mounting ...