Linux / Windows Differences (Linux PART 2)

File System Type.

• Windows -   FAT32, NTFS
• Linux   -   ext3, ext2

Installation Partitions

• Windows needs only one partition
• Linux needs three separate partitions for Installation.
  

Drive Letters

• In Windows : A: for floppy drive; C:   D:   E: and so on for hard disk partitions and for CD-ROM drives.
• In Linux      : No separate drive letters; All the drives are connected (mounted) under the / (root).

User and Super-User 

• In Operating Systems like Linux and Windows, a few users have special powers and they are called Administrators in Windows and 'root' in Linux. 
• They can execute commands which ordinary users cannot, and therefore they are called super-users. 
• In Linux, the default login-name for the super-user is 'root'. 
• If you log-in with the user-id root (and with root's password), then you have logged in as a super-user.

Front-Slash or Back-Slash?

• In Windows, directories are separated by the backslash ( \ )
  e.g: cd C:\Windows\system
• In Windows, directories are separated by the backslash ( \ )e.g: cd C:\Windows\system