[Speakers] Topics, Topics, Topics,....

[Brock Inglehart]

On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 14:25 -0500, Adam Williams wrote:
> > One more request.
> > Don't assume anything more than we can spell our names.  Start with the
> > ultra basics.
> 
> Do you understand that -
> 
> 1.) File systems contain directories/folders that contains files and 
> possibly yet more directories/folders?
Yes

> 2.) Files/Folders have names.  Multiple objects in the same folder can't 
> have the same name.
Yes.

> 3.) Files have some other attributes that aren't contents but are 
> information ABOUT the file, like: created time, last modified time, 
> owner, permissions, etc...  (What is called meta-data,  information 
> ABOUT the data).  Not that you understand what all the attributes mean 
> or are for, but that they exist on every file/folder but are not PART OF 
> the file/folder.
I knew that those attributes existed but thought they were part of the
file.

> 4.) The difference between move and copy.  
Yes.
> In the latter you duplicate 
> to a new location or name or both,  and the the former the origin ceases 
> to exist and the same content then exists in a different location and/or 
> under a different name.
> 
> Seriously.
Leola and I both understand the basics of directories / folders / files.
We both have some understanding of Linux's file system on the surface.
We can both look at root/home/Leola/documents and understand the
hierarchy of it.

Brock 
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