The Linux Filesystem Explained | How Each Directory is Used
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День томуThis video will give you an overview of the top-level directories found on most Linux systems. We'll go over how some of the common top-level directories are used, and explain their specific purposes within Linux.
Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:44 - Linux Filesystem Explained
2:06 - /bin/
2:35 - /boot/
2:54 - /dev/
3:52 - /etc/
4:35 - /home/
5:25 - /lib/
6:07 - /lost+found/
6:18 - /media/
6:52 - /mnt/
7:19 - /opt/
7:42 - /proc/
8:27 - /root/
8:46 - /run/
9:04 - /sbin/
9:38 - /srv/
10:11 - /sys/
10:36 - /tmp/
11:00 - /usr/
12:12 - /var/
12:48 - Further Information
13:39 - Outro
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@k00bly26 9 місяців тому
The best explanation of the Filesystem I've seen and by now. Thanks Veronica for explaining
@whoguy4231 Рік тому
This is something EVERY linux YT channel MUST cover !!! .... Thank You lovely lady
@elddr2 Рік тому
Wow! Just wow! This was amazingly explained! Will recommend this video 100%
@bornsonoran Рік тому
This is my 4th time watching. I absolutely love how you breakdown the file system. You make learning Linux very understandable for me.
@MikeWood Рік тому
For some reason I never saw this when it was first posted. Really good info which I had in one spot when I was first learning Linux. Nicely done.
@njoobie Рік тому
Thank you, Veronica. Will be sharing your Linux filesystem explanation to all my newbie Linux friends. This video is Awesome and so are you!
@salkjshaweoiuenvohvr Рік тому
Veronica is awesome! I've struggled to understand the file system every time I ever tried Linux and you explained it only once and now I finally understand it! Thank you!!!
@Alex-fl2yh Рік тому
I agree. Does she have an own channel? edit it is linked, nevermind
@gg-gn3re Рік тому
Just like windows, 90% of them aren't ever used by users
@mortenlund1418 Рік тому
She is awesome a lot
@Joe-km1vs 22 години тому
I’m new to Linux, this is only the second video of yours that I’ve seen, and I think your videos teaching Linux are some of the best I’ve seen! Very clear explanations where I’m able to understand, and your funny sometimes 😂❤ Sincere gratitude and thanks for explaining this foreign OS to an average self/taught Windows user like myself 🙏🏾✌🏾
@jessicajurado5910 20 днів тому
The best video explaining the filesystem, breaking it down. THANK YOU!
@thedarkknight4243 Рік тому
Thank you so much Linode and especially Veronica for explaining Linux System. Please do more videos on the Linux system and Linux Server Administration, much appreciated. Thanks
@MartinJaszczuk Рік тому
This is an excellent and concise video. Some previous knowledge required, but NICE!
@Michael201078 Рік тому
The best explanation of Linux folders. Just great!
@blackchristiangeek Рік тому
Thanks for the tutorial. I have taken a lot of notes and I clearly have a lot more to learn about Linux basics :-) Also, it was interesting to see someone (you) for the first time that I have been listening to for a long time. Thus, I listen to far more podcasts than I watch UKposts videos. Again, thanks and God bless
@threadtapwhisperer5136 Рік тому
Remember, pressing the TAB key will auto complete the most likely completion. Speed the file path entry in terminal by at least 30 percent.
@AndersJackson Рік тому
And shortcut keys are from Emacs.
@stephenweishaar9058 Рік тому
Been using Linux for nearly 15 years, and I literally only learned this ..... earlier this week! So useful!!!
@MasterHigure Рік тому
Depending on what shell you're using, but Bash and most other common shells will tab-autocomplete as far as it can autocomplete unambiguously, not to the most likely completion. There is a substantial difference between the two.
@pfloydphanatic Рік тому
Thanks for the fun and helpful video! I just took a Linux class and wow what a lot of information. Have like a 30+ page word doc of all commands and another one for all of the directories. It will be a while until I take my Linux+ exam! I told the instructor that I think I know more about the Linux system than Windows now. He's my scripting teacher too for the summer. Think this one's going to be rough...
@pac-sjwepnic8131 Рік тому
I really appreciate this video. the basics explanation is enough to get started. Helps me think in the right direction when something happens. Thanks Veronica.
@asaskald Рік тому
Veronica's channel is so fun and wholesome and now she's on Linode's channel? Excellent! Thanks, Veronica!
@vwbond Рік тому
What is the name of her channel 🤔
@asaskald Рік тому
@@vwbond Veronica Explains it All.
@ramial-saadi3113 Рік тому
" I assure you that the original contents of /etc were the "et cetera" that didn't seem to fit elsewhere. Other variants might do their own etymologies differently. " " You can find references to "et cetera" in old Bell Labs UNIX manuals and so on - it's used for system configuration, but it used to be where all the stuff that didn't fit into other directories went. "
@josephkelly4893 Рік тому
Nice work with the Linode gig Veronica!!!
@GPEART1 5 місяців тому
The symbolic links information was great to learn, thank you!
@andrespasso8511 Рік тому
loved that gameboy on the background !
@terminalreset7659 Рік тому
Excellent video! Thanks! Made it easy to get a good understanding of the file system.
@atreusduvelll600 Рік тому
Great to see you on this channel Veronica! I always love your videos, especially the ones where you demystify some big topics like this. 👍
@ZekeLawl 3 дні тому
I’m not a sysadmin but as a new Linux user just to replace windows this is very helpful. Thank you
@hudsonriverlee 4 місяці тому
Incredibly informative video. Wow. I am stunned at how little I know and knew and now feel my eyes opened... my Linux Mint machine is only for Ham radio use .. so very few programs other than Ham radio related programs will be required.. knowing the how and where is a huge help. Well lit videos with good audio and a confident presenter are key ! Well done !!
@mrd4233 Рік тому
I think this one is the best linux quality explanation on yt!!
@beethreeLIVE Рік тому
Love all these cameos on Linode!
@lecomtegaetan8120 Рік тому
... Thank you so much T_T .I had always been looking for THIS content somewhere about the filesystem but explained that way with important things added while in the stream just enough to keep looking for informations more deeply.
@umarhussain9334 Рік тому
Thanks for these videos really helpful
@CeliniaGava Рік тому
I hope you will expand beyond Linode, you are WONDERFUL at explaining linux
@mariyambeevi9896 11 місяців тому
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@pinkipandey2402 10 місяців тому
@davidmoore573 6 місяців тому
Woot! Bonus Veronica Explains
@jaminoes_ Рік тому
NOTE: /home is more akin to C:\Users in Windows, rather than C:\Users\WHATEVER\Documents
@domdel17 Рік тому
yeah, i was about to comment this too.
@TheTransporter007 Рік тому
Yeah, it's a painfully horrendous error.
@leonidas14775 Рік тому
"C:\Documents and Settings\account\My Documents\"
@DistrosProjects Рік тому
@@leonidas14775 not since XP afaik, they changed it
@monikagaikwad7303 10 місяців тому
@@leonidas14775 1 G1
@Appalling68 Рік тому
1:17 Kernel 4.18. Kernel 4.18? Like wow! LOL! Thank you SO MUCH for such an informative video. You rock, Linux lady!
@Foulancer Рік тому
As a configuration manager I have to say that the Linux file system to me looks like chaos. As if either a result of lack of discipline amongst the open source community or due to legacy. In any case, thanks for this informative video!
@asdf51501 Рік тому
Good info, well presented. Thanks for the video!
@donstamps Рік тому
Great overview! Thank you!
@zameerpashablr Рік тому
Thank you so much for explaining in detail, I have been learning for the past 1 year , I regularly follow Learn Linux TV....he always speaks about Linode, I wanted to learn a lot about Linux Distros. Thank you so much once again.
@chswin Рік тому
This is very well done. She’s a pro communicator!
@nytfire3870 Рік тому
Well explained! Keep it up ma'am 👍
@synthmania7275 Рік тому
Proud linode customer. Love your services :).
@send2gl Рік тому
Well presented, used Linux for ages but nice to get clarification on some folder uses.
@mohammadkhan8712 Рік тому
That was very descriptive on the Linux file system!!
@alanjrobertson Рік тому
Great video, thanks. Also loved you addressing the elephant in the room around the pronunciation of /etc 😂🐘👍
@lukaszmatuszewski Рік тому
/usr actually stands for Unix System Resources which perfectly makes sense.
@joel6471 Рік тому
Well Explained. Thank you for your efforts.
@nelsonrobertomiranda7329 Рік тому
Amazing video! about the usr directory, some would call it "unix system resources", hence the name
@MrJoegotbored Рік тому
Thanks for the tutorial!
@dumbllama8495 Рік тому
I loved it. it's concise and fast paced, which is great for learning starter concepts in any field.
@jimbojimberson9934 Рік тому
I love the Unix / directory! I remember switching to MacOS and Linux exclusively and falling in love with the simplicity. This is an awesome guide to all of them!
@linuxstreamer8910 Рік тому
true after coming from windows it is so easy on windows i had some problems when i unplugged & plugged in a external hdd it changed letters I had some games installed on it it broke so much now i don't have to worry about that anymore ALL HAIL LINUX
@birusingh7820 Рік тому
@@linuxstreamer8910 the
@linuxstreamer8910 Рік тому
@@birusingh7820 who cares
@_BeastRein Рік тому
Despite already knowing most of this, it was still quite interesting to watch.
@user-cx5rl9qg1b 2 місяці тому
Thank you; it's very educational.
@nicolycrispi3134 Рік тому
This is amazing, thank you so much;
@guildpilotone Рік тому
Really well done! Thanks!
@NuttachaiTipprasert Рік тому
Comming from Windows, I found Linux's filesystem makes a lot more sense. I love how everything in Linux (or Unix, for that matter) is just a file. Everything is clear and I can easily find where my files are because there's no A, B, C, D, E.... Z directory or registry nonsense unlike in Windows.
@herrbonk3635 Рік тому
I tried that positive attitude with Unix in the 1980s (my employer had heard "it was the future"). Didn't work out well though, still hate most aspects of Unix and its rigid 1970s style conventions. (The Linux kernel that Linus wrote for the 386 is another thing.)
@Conenion Рік тому
Drive letters made (somewhat) sense back than, when computers had 1 or 2 floppy drives. Not much thereafter.
@herrbonk3635 Рік тому
@@Conenion To me, that CP/M heritage makes perfect sense even today, when you have various USB-sticks, memory cards, and external SSDs. It would be nice if the letters could be words though, i.e. a short description of the unit. (No, I'm no M$ fan by any means, just simple and practical.)
@Conenion Рік тому
@@herrbonk3635 > makes perfect sense even today, Not so perfect then, since drive letters have length of 1 char only. > It would be nice if the letters could be words though, In Linux you label a partition. See mount -l, or lsblk. lsblk will show you /run/media//. And any decent GUI file manager will just show you the label. Like for example Nemo. (lsblk -o LABEL shows you only the labels.)
@herrbonk3635 Рік тому
@@Conenion That's not how it was in Unix, iirc. But a Windows shell (like Total Commander or other) could actually do the same. Because the connection between a drive letter and the id-string of an external SSD, other Nand-flash unit, or whatever, is known and visible via "the registry".
@datag1199 9 місяців тому
Great video - thank you! Subscribed
@kychemclass5850 Рік тому
Fantastic Video. Thank youuuuuuu !
@kevinrobertandrews Рік тому
That was a lot, but very well explained!!! Thank you.
@shanearchibald7940 Рік тому
This was great and Infromative. Thank you very much.
@CurtisFairlie Рік тому
Great explaination 😁
@DeadDad1 Рік тому
Excellent video, thank you!
@giuzp95 Рік тому
Just what I needed!
@abdallahkhamis881 3 місяці тому
Awesome .. love it.. thanks alot
@tpasi2020UG Рік тому
Awesome! Great tutorial thank you.
@TonyGonzales Рік тому
Veronica is awesome, and so are you! And Linux!
@Pindrop22 Рік тому
That was great! Thank you so much
@jeremycoleman3282 Рік тому
Veronica is my new favorite Linode developer advocate
@user-rr7im5og7k Рік тому
Great Explanation!
@ShariqueFaizan Рік тому
Very nice explanation.. Thanks
@GVlis 2 місяці тому
Greeting from Greece! very nice 🙏
@andy_3_913 Рік тому
You're explaining, but not where I was expecting...confused lol. But excellent job all the same :)
@GeorgeGzirishvili 6 місяців тому
3:30: Your second device has no partitions there. Partitions are ones that end with _p_ followed by a number. 11:00: _USR_ stands for _"Unix System Resource",_ not _"user"._
@casuallybad Рік тому
Nice! You gave me GM vibes. Very informative.
@sinzies Рік тому
Cool intro for someone new to Linux helps demystify any confusion. Loved the /etc pronunciation never heard it that way :) been using e.t.c.
@rafalg87 Рік тому
There's some flexibility and some legacy stuff which is fine, but where it gets messy from my point of view is in the /usr/local directory which starts its own duplicated structure, e.g. it can have bin, lib or etc subdirectories. I'm looking at a certain project that uses containers and one of them has configuration in /etc/php while another has it in /usr/local/etc/php. I never know where to look first.
@eddiedantes7732 7 місяців тому
Thank you for explaining in a way a moron like me can understand. This is how my mom used to talk to me when I was five, and I greatly appreciate it.
@nicholashughes8214 Рік тому
Very helpful Thank you
@lucyinchat Рік тому
Neat! Linode is doing a thing.
@johnsanders1728 Рік тому
Nice Presentation
@wedrownysowianin9387 Рік тому
Very good explanations as /run seems kind of new and I rarely hear about /sys at all. However /opt still seems to have a lot of use. The Brave browser places nearly all of its files there, as do some commercial VPNs, along with my current distro (Sparky Linux) placing a lot of its wallpapers there.
@vidhuran4414 Рік тому
I loved it really learned something
@RafaelUlloa85 Рік тому
i do some development with Coldfusion and when installing on Linux, it usually goes by default in the /opt directory
@BilalHeuser1 Рік тому
I like to use the -F option when I use the ls command. Using this option, it will classify each entry and indicate what kind of file it is.
@maharajahdann Рік тому
At last, Bilal!!
@ManontheBroadcast Рік тому
A Users and Permissions Tutorial would be a great follow-up ...
@andreashuber332 Рік тому
Wow great explanation
@androth1502 Рік тому
i've noticed in the home folder, there is a .config folder where *most apps store their user-defined configuration files in their respective folders. however there are some like bash and x11 that dump their configs right in the user folder. is this some kind of legacy thing? it would be nice if all the programs obeyed the .config/ convention.
@wsippel Рік тому
Yeah, the .config folder is related to the relatively new (as far as standard adoption goes) freedesktop XDG base directory specification. Not all programs follow freedesktop standards, and especially legacy applications sometimes don't adopt such changes for compatibility reasons.
@fernandomontesnavarrete8826 Рік тому
You are amazing. Thank you.
@dragonek_gnu_linux_pl Рік тому
finally i found a video where is expleied all i man ALL linux filesystem directories not only some and /srv /run /sys skipped almost at all tutorials
@orsonc.badger7421 Рік тому
Great video!!
@_Raphael_CIA Рік тому
Love your videos.
@TomGeewhiskeytango15511meterDX Рік тому
Good video for sure 👌
@cbbcbb6803 Рік тому
You work with COBOL? I love it. I will subscribe. What COBOL do you work with?
@lorjoo Рік тому
Thank you!
@rupsenshah3345 11 місяців тому
Amazing 👏
@taidee Рік тому
Ok, Veronica, I've finally subscribed 🤣
@guysmith1134 Рік тому
That was cool, very calm and clear. I would like a video on - If I have one Linux system on my home home network, can I access the word documents on my Network storage.
@Phasma6969 Рік тому
Yes just make the folder a share in Windows and mount it on Linux. You can google MULTIPLE methods.
@alexbrezny6108 4 місяці тому
I can not imagine anyone ever calling it etsy instead of E T C, there is a correct way of pronoucning it and it is the one I grew up using
@act.13.41 Рік тому
Well done.
@stucatz1130 Рік тому
What is the keyboard you are using? Looks like a 65%er ? Thank you for the vid
@FGB64 Рік тому
Most (all?) of these directory names were inherited from Unix. I believe usr stood for Unix System Resources.
@lucyinchat Рік тому
That might be apocryphal, it might just be a shortening of user.
@VeronicaExplains Рік тому
@@lucyinchat That's my understanding as well- it didn't stand for anything other than "user" as in "user-land resources" as opposed to "system-land resources" found in the other directories.
@SatishKumar-ut4pu Рік тому
Please want to learn more about file system types, EXT3 , 4 LVM, XFS how to extended them when we augment additional disk space, also role of /etc/fstab
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