{"id":116,"date":"2018-12-07T22:43:36","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T22:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mumbaiwebhosting.co.in\/portal\/?p=116"},"modified":"2019-03-09T02:40:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T02:40:23","slug":"windows-vs-linux-home-directory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mumbaiwebhosting.co.in\/portal\/windows-vs-linux-home-directory\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Vs. Linux: HOME Directory"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>For every user in Linux, a directory is created as\u00a0<strong>\/home\/<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Consider, a regular user account &#8220;Tom&#8221;. He can store his personal files and directories in the directory &#8220;\/home\/tom&#8221;. He can&#8217;t save files outside his user directory and does not have access to directories of other users. For instance, he cannot access directory &#8220;\/home\/jerry&#8221; of another user account&#8221;Jerry&#8221;.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The concept is similar to C:\\Documents and Settings in Windows.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>When you boot the Linux operating system, your user directory (from the above example \/home\/tom) is the\u00a0<strong>default working directory<\/strong>. Hence the directory &#8220;\/home\/tom is also called the\u00a0<strong>Home directory<\/strong>\u00a0which is a misnomer.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The working directory can be changed using some commands which we will learn later.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For every user in Linux, a directory is created as\u00a0\/home\/ Consider, a regular user account &#8220;Tom&#8221;. He can store his personal files and directories in the directory &#8220;\/home\/tom&#8221;. He can&#8217;t&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mumbaiwebhosting.co.in\/portal\/windows-vs-linux-home-directory\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mumbaiwebhosting.co.in\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mumbaiwebhosting.co.in\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mumbaiwebhosting.co.in\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mumbaiwebhosting.co.in\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mumbaiwebhosting.co.in\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mumbaiwebhosting.co.in\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"https:\/\/mumbaiwebhosting.co.in\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mumbaiwebhosting.co.in\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mumbaiwebhosting.co.in\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mumbaiwebhosting.co.in\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}