Comparing the Linux file system with windows

[071]

Hello,
Few simple questions that I'd like to clear up...

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 8799616 5328412 3024196 64% /
/dev/sda1 101089 9296 86574 10% /boot
none 119384 0 119384 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb1 7218432 3078388 3773364 45% /manhatten

Could the windows equivalant to /dev/sda2 and /dev/sda1 be c:and /dev/sdb1 d: ??
Also,it is my understanding that / is at the top of the Linux/UNIX directory tree and all of the other directories are created under it. If this is the case then why does /boot above appear to be on a different filesystem (/dev/sda1) Is this because boot specifically needs another filesystem for the process itself or could it be a safety measure ?





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71

 

[071]

Also, does this in turn mean that /etc /bin and other directories would be located on /dev/sda2 ??

Are the disks named in order alphabetically ? ie. "b" in /dev/sdb1 refers to the 2nd disk so /dev/sdc1 would refer to the 3rd disk ?




Cheers,
71

 

[QatQat]

According to your file

/etc and /bin will be in your /dev/sda2

Probably you have a older linux distro as until a couple of years ago you had to leave /boot filesystem in a separate partition.

Modern linux distros do not need that anymore so you may find normally

/dev/sda1 /

and everything installed in the same partition.

The disks are named as follows

In your case

SD for SCSI disk + A for first disk + 1 for first partition

if you where using IDE you would have

/dev/hda1, first disk on first channel and first partition.

more examples

/dev/sdc2 = 3rd SCSI disk, second partition
/dev/hdd1 = 4th IDE drive (or slave drive on second controller), first partition.


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[stefanwagner]

@qatqat
> a couple of years ago you had to leave /boot filesystem in a separate partition

I didn't since 1998.

@071
/etc and /bin will most probably be on sda2, but they could be symbolic links to another place, or being mounted without using fstab - both would be curious, hard to reach*, but not impossible.

*) hard to reach, because /bin and /etc are used very early during bootup.
Now you have to ask how /etc/fstab is found, without knowing where to search for it, before mounting.

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