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When you are in a command window (CMD) in windows you can see your working directory or working drive by typing .
This will show you the letter of your drive (typically C:\) and your path.

To further explore the contents of your current path you can type to see the contents.

cd stands for change directory or folder.

Executing the cd command with no arguments does behave different in Linux and Windows:

Windows = shows your current working folder and path
Linux = goes to your home directory
"cd" in Windows = "pwd" in Linux.

you can go "back" in both systems by typing

The one thing that Windows users will miss the most is the drive letter C:\

You will not find it in Linux.

In Linux C:\ = /

Yes - no letter; simply a slash

This takes some getting used to.

I know... forgot most of the commands since I do not work IT any more. Used to be good on UNIX, you know how that goes, you do not use it, you are going to loose it.

What about the B Drive... B:\

That would be the good old slot for the diskette.
I do still have it here.

This gives me the opportunity to explain how to find the storing space in Linux:


Will show all your disks:


This is probably not as intuitive as C:\ D:\ and B:\ and to confuse our Windows using friends we have to bring in something called mount point.

This shows that my "C:/" is on sda5 and that "My Documents" are on sda6 (/home)

My B:/ is on fdo and is simply called "disk".

It takes some getting used to when you come from Windows since we rarely talk about disks and partitions there.

It might be easier for our Windows using friends to type:
It will look like this: