What Is a Filesystem?

All the data stored on your computer is organized into files and directories. Files and directories are organized into a tree-like structure called a filesystem.

• Directories (or "folders" on Windows) are just containers that hold files and other directories.
• Files are just a dump of raw binary data: 1's and 0's. The bytes in a file can represent anything: text, images, videos, etc.

The filesystem tree starts with a single directory called the root directory. The root directory contains files and directories, which can contain more files and directories, and so on.

When you open your terminal, your working directory (the one you're "in") is going to be... somewhere. Most commonly it is your "home" directory.

The pwd command prints your current working directory.

Assignment

You've remotely logged onto a suspicious employee's workstation at WorldBanc. First, you need to determine where on their filesystem you are...

In the shell on the right, run pwd to print the filepath of your current working directory.

Submit the shell checks.