The file system used by *nix operating systems is fundamentally different from that used by DOS, Windows, etc.
On Windows, each partition has a drive letter (C:
, D:
, etc.).
On Mac OS X, each partition has a mount point (/
, /home
).
I am on Mac and it has like Download, Desktop, Music, etc... but where is a more real place to extract my files into? I want something like C:\MyDBFiles
that I could create on Windows...
There are no drive letters on Mac OS X, sorry.
There nothing unreal about Desktop
. It's actually ~/Desktop
, where ~
is your home directory (usually /home/username
).
Without root privileges, you only have access to ~
anyway. All your personal files belong there. Consider it your C:\
.
See also: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard - Wikipedia