This means they do not have read, write, or execute access (cd /home/amelie 

will not work) to this directory, using the standard UNIX file system semantics 

(rwx for the user only but no permissions for groups and others).

In contrast to Windows, you have no drives (C:,D:, etc.) available on Linux 

(except when using Wine and its drive mapping features), since everything is just 

mounted into the file system. But you can easily add the old drive names in 

brackets when configuring desktop folder icons so the user recognizes his old 

environment. NFS, SMB, or even bind mounts (see Example 4 2) are very 

powerful mechanisms to build a file system hierarchy.

Example 4 2   Code

mount  o bind /usr/local/src /home/amelie/src

When a user understands this UNIX philosophy she will be very fast accessing 

files with a shell and TAB completion, but most Linux beginners will explore the 

file system using a file (and Web) browser like Konqueror or Nautilus.

Figure 4 4   Accessing remote directory in transparent way with Konqueror (fish://)

These are very sophisticated tools, and by using virtual file system mechanisms 

(GNOME VFS, KIO_slaves) you can access files on remote servers or even 

physical devices like USB sticks, bluetooth devices, digital cameras, etc. in a 

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