On Monday 10 February 2003 02:25 am, Adolfo Bello wrote: > On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 23:56, 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 > > IF what you want is to have quick access to data in a drive, you can > symlink to the mount point, like: > ln -s /mnt/disk /a > ln -s /mnt/windows /d > ln -s /mnt/cdrom /e > > However, I would recommend you to unlearn that Window$ crap and stay > with the linux/unix file system way.
Ummm Actual drive the directory is on? Windows doesn't do that. I can take a single drive and make 5 partitions and windows will tell me about C:, D:, E:, F:, G: and make my CDROM H: Or I could have 4 drives and I would see C: D: E: F: with CDROM as G: And even if you wanted information about partitions.... Like suppose /dev/hda1 is / and /dev/hda5 is swap and /dev/hda6 is /usr and /dev/hda7 is /home, where would you find /opt? /opt could be part of / or it could have been set up with a symbolic link as in ln -s /usr/opt /opt Now with that said, the analog of explorer is like Krusader or gmc. Just realize that linux is a little too flexible for windows-centric thinking. If you want to see the top-level directories by drive and partition, that information is in a separate window -- call up Kwikdisk from Configuration->Hardware or KDiskFree from Applications-->monitoring Both use kdf but Kwikdisk docks it into the "system tray"
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