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Understanding Linux Files and Users

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Most of us are used to dealing with files—the things that live on our hard disks, floppies, and CD-ROMs and contain data and program code. It should come as no surprise that Linux has its own file structure that is different from Windows in terms of where data is stored and also the underlying technology.

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© 2007 Shashank Sharma and Keir Thomas

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(2007). Understanding Linux Files and Users. In: Beginning Fedora. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0297-4_14

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