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LAB 02 / 08

museum@linux:~$ FILESYSTEM EXPLORER

FIND YOUR WAY THROUGH THE TREE

Linux navigation is rooted at /, rather than being organized primarily around drive letters. Multiple devices and filesystems can still be mounted into that one tree.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

  • Recognize common locations: /home, /etc, /var, and /tmp.
  • Read absolute paths beginning at / and relative paths beginning from the current location.
  • Use . for the current directory and .. for its parent.
/
├── etc
├── home
│   └── museum
├── tmp
└── var

READY TO EXPLORE?

Navigate the same fictional Linux computer from Lab 01. Your terminal and filesystem tree stay synchronized.

START LAB →

HANDS-ON NAVIGATION

Use cd, pwd, ls, and cat to explore paths in one browser-memory-only filesystem.

SAFETY / BROWSER-ONLY

This interactive lab uses a fictional browser-memory-only system. It will never run real shell commands or access your files, processes, services, or operating system.