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I cant seem to find drives like E or D, in ubuntu, every folder or file get saved in the desktop itself. Please help

Abhay Chandra
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    You can create your own "drives" which really are partitions And you can give them labels or mount using a name you assign, so better idea of E: drive is really the "backup" partition. Data should normally be saved in /home and the folders there, not to desktop. https://askubuntu.com/questions/164926/how-to-make-partitions-mount-at-startup & https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MountingWindowsPartitions – oldfred Sep 01 '21 at 18:51
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    Linux doesn't work like windoze with drive letters like C,D,E etc. This reference might help explain. – graham Sep 01 '21 at 18:51
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    You could create partitions, but that's a horrible idea if your only purpose for doing so is organization. Over-partitioning only creates rigid artificial limitations on how your space can be used. Folders are better for this purpose. You can even name a folder "D" and "E" if you are really insistent on using those designations for some reason. – Nmath Sep 01 '21 at 19:04
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    It's also unclear what you are even asking. Are you just trying to find the path for partitions or volumes that already exist in Windows that Windows refers to as D and E? The most user friendly way to determine the path is to open the "Disks" application, choose the disk or partition, and it will tell you the path where the partition or volume is mounted in your filesystem – Nmath Sep 01 '21 at 19:07
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    The filesystem uses mount points instead of an individual filesystem for each drive. In unix/linux, it is often said that "everything is a file" and this is a good example. Device names are usually /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2 etc. Your main drive (like windows drive C: or /dev/sda1) is mounted at the mount point / and you can add an additional drive (like windows drive D: or /dev/sda2), like a branch off of a tree, at a different mount point under this drive like at /media/abhay/drivename/, for example, and everything on that drive would be in a file under this mount point. – mchid Sep 01 '21 at 19:44
  • Long story short, the device names are not listed in the file system. Only the mount point of each device (the folder at which each drive exists) is listed. – mchid Sep 01 '21 at 19:47
  • Please update your question with what you want to achieve, and why. – Soren A Sep 01 '21 at 20:57

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You can't.

Unix has the concept of a strictly hierarchical file system, with / as the root of the file system - and everything under that, even if it's a different physical drive or a network file system.

User's files are supposed to be in /home/username, or equivalent. The home directory contains everything personalized to a user, such as documents, configuration files, programs for that user and so forth.

Create directories in your home directory to organize things the way you prefer, but you should view /home/username as the only place to store files.

This incidentally makes backups easy; if you only care about user data, backup /home/ and ignore the rest of the system.

vidarlo
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  • Most likely, OP has a single, large partition, and wants to break it into smaller ones, which is certainly possible in Ubuntu. You can't really does not answer that question. – Archisman Panigrahi Sep 01 '21 at 19:04
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    Given that he references that everything gets saved on the desktop, I don't find this reasonable, and thus an answer explaining how the Unix file system is built up is on topic. I may very well be wrong, but as the question stands I believe this to be a at least somewhat useful answer :) – vidarlo Sep 01 '21 at 19:07
  • I think it's very unclear what OP is asking so it may have been premature to answer the question. It seems like OP might be asking how to create partitions. But they could also be asking how to find a completely different hard drive or partition that Windows calls D and/or E. They might even be asking how to save files somewhere else. The question lacks specifics and details to understand what is the actual problem faced by the OP – Nmath Sep 01 '21 at 19:14