looking up my root directory
 

How can I lookup the directory structure on my account?

:confused:

well what are you trying to achieve? just see what directories exit in /home/user?

find /home/user -type d

is one of many many ways to achieve it.

if you feel lost on command line, you can run mc (midgniht commander)
is a nice application with suport for ftp links, managing authorizations etc...
you type "mc" from command line and you ll have a relativly similar windoz explorer :D

use ls with switches: -a (show all, includin . files) -l (show description of file) -R (lists directories and files recursively) rrun something like this:
ls -R /home/<user>
this should list all the directories and subdirectories as well as ALL th files under /home/<use> were <user> is your username.