Navigating the Linux Filesystem - page 2 Let's go back to that
filesystem in Figure 1, where we'd gotten as far as /home. But
you can string together more than one directory in a pathname.
You know that /home gets you one level below the root; but if
you add another directory, you can refer to useful places
/home/sue. On most systems, that's where the user named sue
would have her home directory. So when Sue first logs in, her
working directory is her home directory, Remember I said how
important it is whether you start with a slash? Suppose Sue has
a directory of her own called "home", where she keeps all the
records related to her house. If she's in her home directory and
types "ls home", that's very different from "ls /home", as
Figure 2 illustrates. $ ls /home fred sue $ ls home mortgage.ods
paintcodes.odf photosSee the difference? Now let's say, going
back to Figure 1, that Sue wants to share a photo of her dog
with Fred, who has an account on the same system. All she has to
do is tell him the full pathn