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  • Look for the / (forward slash), under the Mounted on column:
    • / (forward slash) is the root of the file system where the operating system is installed
    • Note its Size is 98G with 4761G used
  • Look for Mounted on entries with large Size numbers:
    • Gigabytes (10^9 bytes), Terabytes (10^12 bytes), Petabytes (10^15 bytes)
  • Ignore file systems with names like /run, /dev, /snap, /sys, /boot, /tmp, /var – these are system related
  • Here we see a number starting with /stor (/stor, /stor/home, /stor/work, etc.)
    • Note its large Size: 39T - a sign that it's a file system you want to know about.

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  1. file permissions - a 10-character field
  2. number of sub-components associated with a directory - rarely important
  3. account name of the file owner
  4. Unix group associated with the file
  5. file size
  6. last modification month
  7. last modification day
  8. last modification year, or last modification hour/:minute if within the last year
  9. file name

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