How partition works with files?

trojan

1/24/23, 5:32 PM

I'm new to ubuntu.. I didn't find a better title but that's the context :

now in windows for example if i created 5 partition it will take names like E:, C:, D: etc and every partiton will store the files i put in, but in linux i can't locate the partitions.. all my files, folders is in a slash, /etc, /home etc, and the partition are actually files in /dev/sda* and if i created a partition it will create a file like that, also i can't cat /dev/sda1 so can anyone explain how this works?

Thanks.

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user535733

1/24/23, 5:42 PM

See `man mount`, which explains it quite well. You must *mount* the *device* onto a directory (called a *mountpoint*) in your filesystem. Then you can see the files in that directory. Example: `sudo mount /dev/sda3 /mnt`, then `ls /mnt`

N0rbert

1/24/23, 5:57 PM

Does this answer your question? [What is a block device?](https://askubuntu.com/questions/190436/what-is-a-block-device)

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llesh

1/24/23, 6:18 PM

There are two ways that I know of.

Option 1:

lsblk

It is a simple utility that shows just disks and their partition.

Option 2:

sudo fdisk -l

fdisk is an utility that manipulates partition table. It is more comprehensible than lsblk and shows additional information such as type of filesystem, disk model, boot partition.

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MaestroGlanz

1/24/23, 8:16 PM

Think of the file system in Linux as a system independent from the hardware. You have the root directory and all folders below it. But it isn't specified, where they are physically located. I. E. You can have the whole system on one partition. Except for the /tmp folder, which is located on another partition. Other example: If I have a lot of files and my own hard disk, I can mount it under /home, if I want to share with you or under /home/MaestroGlanz, if I don't. You can mount any partition at any point, that exists. If you want to see, where your partitions are mounted, you can run the command df. If you go into /etc/fstab, you can edit this structure.

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