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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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- file permissions - a 10-character field
- number of sub-components associated with a directory - rarely important
- account name of the file owner
- Unix group associated with the file
- file size
- last modification month
- last modification day
- last modification year, or last modification hour/:minute if within the last year
- file name
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