Learning the Linux File System

An introduction to the basic Linux file system and how to get around in it. If you'd like to know more about how I can help you get started with Linux then please check out www.ezeelinux.com

[@residentdog]

"thx for clicking the video" actually deserves a like

[@786MdRj]

Why we can think like that! He might want to see, how many are actively learning right?

[@xyzzx2454]

Your vids are the reason I'm passing my tests, THANK YOU

[@EzeeLinux]

Cool. Good luck! :)

[@jamesgfilm]

You have a class on Linux? Or is it like computer organization?

[@arcticjoe1142]

I want to know what you're studying, too (same as VeryCoolStuff). I have considered pursuing some sort of Linux certification.

[@MrHatoi]

Years ago when I was starting out with Linux this video helped me so much... It just came up in my recommended and watching it is bringing back so many memories. Great video!

[@jcallen3]

This video was recommended by my Linux instructor in my Intro to UNIX/Linux class and it was well worth the time. Thank you very much for a thorough explanation as well as the visual confirmation showing the file creations populating in the GUI from the CLI. Subscribed.

[@jeevespreston]

THANKS for this lucid description AND with the comparison to Windows locations. Been wondering about these folder purposes for years, now it's clear!!!

[@dima8415]

Best howto and tutorial I ever imagined. VERY useful. Even after 7 years of linux

[@xk1k1x]

Currently training for my A+ 1002 and was really struggling with Linux since I have no experience with it. This was unbelievably helpful

[@j7ndominica051]

As a Windows user, I find this directory structure more logical and compact. No problems with spaces in file names, the directory tree is shallow, system, users, temp and caches are separate and movable instead of buried into one another.

[@jmtikka]

The original Unix system had two disks: one for the operating system (/) and the other for user home directories (/usr). When the operating system grew they had to move some stuff over to the other disks and so the various /usr/someting directories were born. At some point they could afford a third disk and then the user home directories were moved from /usr to /home. So "Unix System Resourses" and such are such backronyms with no actual meaning. The /usr directory was the original place for the home directories but the letters 'u', 's' and 'r' soon lost their original meaning.

[@RobertLock1978]

Exactly. I'm glad someone called this out.

[@Souls4Roca]

since i kinda use a setup like that now it's like nothing changed lol

[@balams2855]

Very educating. As i am from windows background.

[@lanceareadbhar]

I bet there were arguments to move the usr/something directories to the third disk and leave the original user data in /usr. I'm a little surprised they didn't do that.

[@Razumen]

@@lanceareadbhar These types of arguments are proof of the problems that will ensure Linux will never go mainstream.

[@nicoc6011]

Last night I watched bash commands and was an excellent class, great teacher you are! I’ll keep watching since you explain concepts very clearly. Thanks a lot. Got subscribed.

[@BrandonAbel01]

One video at a time the foundation is built. Thanks Joe!

[@PoeLemic]

Very help intro. You and Chris Titus are helping me feel comfortable enough to try and start using Linux as a daily driver.

[@marcdraco2189]

20+ years and I finally know what the hell USR means! (DOOP)

[@raccoon_cast]

I came here just for that. I always thought it was user.

[@joemw8806]

its not?! I've just began watching lol

[@joemw8806]

okay now I know; universal system resources; haha

[@varundeshpandevd]

Yes me too

[@GifCoDigital]

Bahahahaha shit I was just about to write a douchey comment saying how the hell did you not know usr = user !!! Glad i watched the video first, ive always thought it was user since the first time I used a linux distro!! lol

[@Cheweetina1]

Hi Joe,Thanks so much! Good teaching!

[@EzeeLinux]

+Cheweetina1 Thanks for watching. :)

[@briandague4310]

Thank you for making this video, very informative about how to work with files in linux. Using the "touch" command to create a bunch of files while showing them open in the file browser is a great way of showing that the command-line and GUI are interacting with the same system. Neat little trick: If you want to get to the home directory, you can just type "cd", no need to type "cd ~".

[@jgenterprisesnew9552]

Thanks Joe. You give me hope that I could still learn LINUX.

[@jb121993]

Thx much! Dove headfirst into learning Linux 2 yrs ago & left w/headache. Wanna get back in the game, but at slower pace. Your xplination was great!

[@davelowe1977]

That was the single most useful presentation on Linux I've ever watched. Thanks!

[@deathangel523]

Thanks for making this video . A perfect review for how Linux file system works.

[@PaperBagMan884]

I love your videos! I've learned so much about Linux from just your channel alone.

[@z3jlewhhda376]

Clear words with clear concepts. Appreciated!

[@WXLM-MorganNicole619]

I’ve see this a few times but it still applies and helps me remember these. Thanks again Joe! Good help

[@WXLM-MorganNicole619]

Much appreciated a nice little primer and refresher

[@hottyson]

I have been using open source operating systems since Mandrake/Mandriva and MEPIS. I have not understood directory structures until now. Thank you Joe Collins!

[@PETAJOULE543]

Nice explanation about contents of Linux directories, mounting in Linux, filenames being case-sensitive, hidden files that have dot at the beginning plus Samba

[@kdavisongalvis]

I've been using linux for 5 days now, useful video. Thank You!

[@xwinglover]

I learned a few things from this video. Thanks!

[@rajpant88]

Great Joe & Cindy ..very helpful for those using this.

[@someguyO2W]

Been looking for a proper explanation of each directory and its function for quite a bit. Thanks.

[@Retroglide42]

Found this a really interesting and useful video. I don't get to use my Linux PC much as it's still at my parents house, but I'm loving learning how to use Linux and the differences with Windows. Many thanks for the great videos Joe!

[@tombouie]

Very enlightening/enjoyable intro to linux filesys. Linux is like going for a ice cold swim. Until you get all the way in & really get all warmed up, it's absolutely mind numbing.

[@jeffreyplum5259]

One reason for so many directories was that Unix came from an era of tiny disks, by today's standards. One or a few important directories could fill a disk. Directories like /home ,/var and even /tmp, could need their own disks. It also allowed core system programs to be kept on syste m disks, often write protected. Data files were kept on their one disks. The Unix tree structure allowed the same overall structure to be common, while their may be one disk or dozens. Disks were physically larger, while not hold near as much data. They also could damage themselves rather easily. The file tree shows directories needed to start, run and fix the system are kept apart from common user programs. A nice video. thanks.

[@Bring_MeSunshine]

Brilliant Joe. I'm already knee deep into Linux, with Ubuntu, Fedora on physical machines and Kali and CentOS on VMs, but in all the tutorial stuff I have or have seen, no one has taken the time to introduce the file system in this way. I think they assume if you have your ass in gear enough to want to even try Linux, you must be aware, but it's not the case. OK, I have learnt a few things, but it's good to have another insight. Cheers

[@dehydratedwatr]

Im going to comment here because the actual video that inspired my switch has comments turned off. Thank you joe. You inspired me to make the switch to linux full time and I love it. Im still a beginner but now im 18 months in and thanks to what I learned from your channel, ive gotten to where I prefer to boot straight into the command line and my friends and family look at me like I'm a super nerd. I got called turbo brain today and all i wasn't doing was putting mint iso's on some flash drives to give to a friend who's laptop's resources wont allow him to run windows 8.

[@rajhussain6982]

Please do more videos Joe this was brilliant

[@varundeshpandevd]

Nicely done Joe. Keep up the good work.

[@EDreyer]

thanks! One of the longest youtube videos that I have watched, but switching form windows to ubuntu this helped a lot

[@shellyshamsul3757]

your simple instruction and teaching simply awesome!

[@RealGengarTV]

From a long time windows/dos user (win 3.11) THANK YOU SO MUCH! I've always scratched my head when I dabbled in the linux file indexing system (that's what I call it so I don't confuse it with file system such as NTFS and EXT4)

[@Zager-recap]

Your way of teaching is Great...Thanks a lot Joe.

[@gibsonfx3819]

Thanks for all these tutorials. They are truly special.

[@miragexii446]

I am learning Linux & this is very helpful. Thank you very much. Please keep up the outstanding work! Take care.

[@levuquocbao2853]

Wow, so much useful infomation. Thank you. Keep up the good work!

[@jahtemg_6636]

Finally, someone who "reviews" linux, and actually uses it at as DESKTOP OS, OMG.

[@johnb1391]

Sounds like that kind of person is your Arch nemesis!

[@Jamie-yp7qz]

@Steven Tsakiris Scratch that, I'm gonna go eat a Mint.

[@alexyu9758]

Why not? I'm even using it on my phone.

[@Quephara]

@IHasNoLife Productions dammit Karen!

[@thearcheduck8746]

@IHasNoLife Productions Not a big fan of mints, so I'll just go off into the solus system.

[@sankargopal123]

Just getting started on UNIX and Linux and am I glad I landed here first :) Thank you !!!

[@frederickwrigley2295]

Nice and clear, and it's useful for 90+% Linux users. Thanks!

[@xMaverickFPS]

@5:42 - i heard myself go "OH! cool background!" without realizing it lol great video. very clear.

[@Amfortas]

I just dual partitioned Linux Mint 18, can't wait to get stuck in!

[@sylvainyu3104]

I will try to access to Linux Arch!

[@stevebez2767]

James O'Morain man info is good? Cathedral bazar? Git? Debuggers? EMacs?lisp?python? Eric Idle?monte Carlos? Hadoop?

[@gm2407]

How did it go, did it meet your expectations?

[@interestingspagetti]

Have watched quite a few of your vid's in the past. I posted on another vid of yours yesterday. I 've just installed mate 16.04 on my laptop. I have a lot to learn about linux. Your vid's are really informative. Learning lots from you. :)

[@duranopaulo]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge. You make it more simple for us beginners.

[@hobstar]

As some whom has a decent PC background but is new to Linux, I found this very useful. New subscriber.

[@shivarampersaud2332]

Thanks a ton, I love videos like these that just help people out or teach ya something.

[@anthonyedwards8403]

That was a great demonstration! of the Linux filing system Joe.

[@hotshot2472010]

great guide! i've been using linux for more than 10 years and from this video, i just found out that the USR directory doesn't mean user....wow! *Mind Blown*

[@DevineIshaq107]

Thanks Joe it was interesting was absorbing and keeping a listener feel at home.

[@jwkmpli]

hi I have been a pc user for 30 years on windows, and been using ubuntu for 5 yrs now thanks for this info all my family didnt like idea of switch to linux at the start but use it every day now, videos like this offer small bits of info to us that we can take on board easily and we don't feel things are to hard to understand, thanks

[@ayozhek1898]

Great easy to follow tutorial, thank you 🙂

[@rationalraven8956]

Cool I've been using Linux for years and didn't know what most of the abbreviations in / directory meant, thanks for the info.

[@billalexander949]

Thanks for the videos. Love your teaching style.

[@TheFlyguy31]

I really enjoyed this tutorial. you took away the scary element of learning Linux and made it easier for me understand..Cheers

[@rajkhare5949]

very very very useful vefio for the new linux user who moved from windows....thanks for explaining it so well!!

[@hermesflores6271]

I am a Linux new user. This class was very helpful for me to understand a lot of things. I really appreciate your help. Also I will like to learn more so I can switch completely to Linux. Right now I have all my computers dual boot with Linux distros. Ubuntu Studio, MX Linux, Fedora and a Virtual Box with Kali. I been investing more than 4 hours daily to learn more about programming and working on Linux environment. There's only one thing I have not make work on Linux, that is Spectrum TV app and Netflix all because of flash player. Thanks.

[@positivemelon7578]

Great video, thanks a bunch :D

[@ConsagraditoGames]

Awesome video! Thanks man, you helped me a lot understanding the file system in Linux OS.

[@GLRYB2GD]

Great stuff! Gonna rewatch a few times.

[@temari2860]

Watching this tutorial with old Ubuntu's unity desktop brings a lot of nostalgia.

[@brendanward2991]

Very helpful for a Linux newbie like me. Thanks.

[@Ramms23]

Very good basic explanation. Thanks

[@loreyoungtech]

Very helpful content. Thank you.

[@vicrod74]

Thank you. You make a wonderful teacher.

[@PA4KEV]

Thank you for this video, helpful for beginner Linux users

[@kewaltakhellambam7710]

"you just blew up the whole town man"😂.. Thanks this video really informative

[@BasvanHeelRoseboom]

Thnx ... learned some simple usable trics.. Arrow up in the terminal :)

[@mahardhikasaptadi4271]

Thanks. This video clears a lot of confusion i have. primarily in the filesystem (structure as someone else called it?).

[@gaetanoalessandro286]

Thanks, a lot for information and for your free Effort and works

[@Scott-mv7xm]

4:15 but linux does have a similar system to window's letter naming. ex: sda1, s would be sata/ssc drive, a is first, and 1 meaning the partition.

[@cameramon]

Thanks for the refresher course.

[@akompsupport]

Thanks for the explain on touch command. Very cool.

[@ploopy0728]

this was way more entertaining than it should have been ty

[@NgirgisFayez]

Thank you for your nice arrangement video

[@ukwongaman]

It is accepted that Linux is based on Unix. The directory name /usr is based on the word user, not Universal System Resource. In early Unix systems it was where you stored your files (/home didn't exist).; See page 48 of The Unix Programming Environment by Kernighan & Pike

[@nt5898]

I just started my school. Nice, was really useful. Thanks man )

[@Technicalturbo]

Good content along with proper explanation

[@3zambrano]

Thanks a lot for the informative vid!

[@maggieblyth2077]

great video thank you for sharing

[@sixpooltube]

Excellent explanation!

[@pay9011]

Very helpful video. 👍 I played around with Linux Puppy a few years ago but was intimidated by it. I'm now using Linux MX (alongside Win 7) so I want to actually understand it. This was a big help for me.

[@7ismersenne]

Excellent intro. Ditto on usr :) Please give us some more :)

[@Combine1331]

Great video man! Good work!

[@TheoWerewolf]

Just for the record - Windows can also mount hard drives, folders and network shares as if they were folders on your main drive. It's discouraged because it's far more common with Windows systems to have removable drives and it's easy to forget that it's a drive when you do a mount point. But if you have a multi-drive system where the drives are fixed in the system, that's fine.

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

I always knew it was possible in Windows... well... I have since Windows3 (I think?)... I was just cautioned against it because Windows had a tendency to be too stupid to still treat it as a drive (like being able to stop it before you unplug the thing on an external)... and you could lose your data. :o)

[@TheBrightPixel]

Actually, Windows will not allow you to map a drive marked as removable by default.

[@HighestRank]

The fact that Unix was made for colorblind people is why Linux GUIs are needed by the fully-sighted to do file operation- so the folder avatars can be adorned with icons that always visually show in a glance the removability of a drive.

[@nishad3445]

Greetings and salutations to you too! Great video mate!

[@trungoinh4639]

this video is really useful for me, thanks

[@b00gi3]

That explained a lot ! Thanks Joe !

[@tonyantognazzi6587]

Great video. Thanks for the information.

[@jknock148]

Great breakdown!

[@Linuxenthusiast]

Great Video ! Thank you Joe

[@kadeembey8367]

Such a well thought out and put together video, my god. thank you for taking the time to create this. I have watched other paid videos and none provide as much detail as this ! Very easy to understand with great windows to Linux comparisons !!!

[@aiden359]

Very informative for a beginner like me. Thanks!

[@V0X4455]

Great video!! I like your layout.

[@SilentStrikerTH]

Great video, I really learned a lot! one question I have is less about the video and more about your interface, how did you get your menu bar (file edit etc) to be hidden under the window name? That seems like a feature that I would love!