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1.3.1 Saving your data on the Raspberry Pi
File management on Linux runs a bit different than it does under Windows, but is not difficult at all.
Raspbian features a file manager, which looks just like the Windows Explorer. There is an important
difference to Windows: Linux does not strictly separate the drives, all files are located in a shared file system.
Basically on Linux, you store all your documents under the home directory. It is called here
/home/pi
according to the username
pi. Linux uses the simple slash to separate the components of a path name(/)
and not the backslash (
\) as Windows does. You will store your Python programs in this directory, too. By
default the file manager shows only this home directory. You can also access the file manager, like under
Windows, using the key combination
[Win]+[E], by the way. Some programmes automatically create
subdirectories there.
If you really want to see everything, even the files that should not concern the everyday user, you change the
file manager on the top left from
Places to Directory tree . Then choose in the menu View the option Detailed
view
and the display looks like what you would imagine from a Linux system.
Fig. 1.4: The file manager on the Raspberry Pi can look like this ...