3.2. Home Directory

Devices such as a hard disk or CD-ROM drive, that are recognized by the Windows system are displayed in "My Computer" on the desktop as a "C drive" icon or "CD-ROM" icon. The folder hierarchy is built under those drives which are top positions of the hierarchy.

With Linux, the tree structure is built, where the root folder (represented as "/") is located at the top. All the folders and files located in each device can be traced from this "/" folder.

Various subfolders exist in the "/" folder such as bin, boot, dev, etc, home, lib, opt, root, mnt, tmp, usr, and var. A folder in one layer and the folders and files in its lower layer are separated by a "/" (slash) symbol, which represents a hierarchy. For example, the folder "cdrom" in the mnt folder can be expressed by "/mnt/cdrom". With Windows, the folder hierarchy is separated by "\", such as "C:\Windows".

If you create a user in Turbolinux FUJI, an area named "home folder" is assigned to that user. The home folder of the general user is "/home/(user name)", while the home folder of the system administrator, or root, is "/root". If you create a general user "taro" using the Installer, the home folder of taro will be "/home/taro". When a user log in to Turbolinux FUJI, he/she works in his/her home folder. While a user can save files or create a new folder in his/her home folder, he/she usually cannot write in files or folders owned by other users. (There is a folder that can be written by all the users, such as /tmp folder. /tmp folder, or a temporary storage folder, is a special folder.)

Therefore, the folder to save a file created using an application or the folder to be specified when downloading files from the Internet must be located under the user's home folder. You can use the "MyDocument" folder which is located under the home folder and available to you.

To actually access a folder, you use the file manager. See Section 3.5 for detailes on the file manager.

The root user is a privileged user to whom all operations in the system are authorized. The root user can delete any files or folders. Be careful not to delete files by mistake required for the system when you log in as a root user.