On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 14:56, Russ wrote: > Hi All, > > I have been trying to learn how Linux's file system works and what goes > where. I am gaining ground. Here is my pet peeve though. When navigating > the various files and folders, you do not know which actual partition it > is on. In windows explorer it separates the drives and shows you what is > on each. I hate to say it (especially here) but I like how windows > explorer works. The left column gives you a list of all drives, > floppies, CD's and what not. Makes it easy to navigate your file system. > Is there a file manager for Linux that does this as well? This would > help me keep all these things straight. > > Thanks > Russ >
This is the nature of the *nix file system structure. Every partition and/or drive is mounted as part of the file system. This allows you to have many drives, but a single file structure. To my knowledge, there are heaps and heaps of different file managers, but nothing that will ever show anything like a drive. If you've done a default installation side-by-side with a Windows installation, you will find your Windows partition under /mnt/ The true beauty of the file system was designed from the beginning (more than 30 years ago) to be able to have a single file system. If you open up a console window, you can type: sfdisk --list ...to get a listing of the partitions You can type: mount ...to view the drive mountings. If you're in KDE, you can type kwikdisk ...to show how drives are mounted and allow you to mount/unmount from your system tray. Remember that you're going to have to rethink/relearn how the file system works. In the reality of it, the MSDOS manner of drive labelling is actually more clunky and less logical...only 26 drives? Hmmmm...strange...(grin) Peace! -- Mon, 10 Feb 2003 14:55:00 +1100 2:55pm up 3 days, 7:13, 5 users, load average: 0.02, 0.15, 0.21 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | __ __ | kuhn media australia | | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | ------------------------------------------------------------------ linux user:267497 * RH 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting ------------------------------------------------------------------ Nothing I do is my fault. -- Calvin
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