Afternoon all, can anyone tell where to find c: drive in Mint 19.2 i have been told a download will be found there. Cheers.

Linux (Unix generally) does not have drive letters - that's purely a windows (ms-dos) thing.

You can try lsblk or df ( df -h) cmds to see drive & dir mounts or look in /etc/fstab.

You should tell us exactly where you got that info from and what you are trying to do.

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There is no C: drive in Linux. There are only partitions.

Strictly speaking, there is no C: drive in Windows. Windows misuses the term "drive" to refer to a partition. I can recall one time when I used Windows that I had two Windows "drives" (C: and D: ) on one physical disk, that is, on one "drive."

A drive is a physical hardware device. A partition is a formatted portion of drive which can be used for data storage. A single physical drive may contain several partitions.

You may find these links helpful:

https://www.howtogeek.com/117435/htg...ure-explained/

https://www.maketecheasier.com/diffe...rtition-image/

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look in your home dir under Downloads...

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you will probably get a quicker, more precise answer from the person that told you about the "download"

but the output of
may help us identify "C:"


copy/paste the output
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it preserves the readability

DorKen,

In Firefox I find it much easier to keep track of downloads by changing the default location from Downloads to Desktop.

Once I have completed my work on a particular downloaded item, I move it into my Downloads folder, in case I need to use it again.

To change the the default location in Firefox:

Edit > Preferences > General > Browse > Select Desktop > click on Open.

Should give all of that info and a bit more.

DorKen, following on from what's been said above; the closest equivalent in Linux (and UNIX generally) to what Windows (and MS-DOS) call the "C: Drive" would probably be the root partition, more precisely the file system hierarchy itself (being the forward slash). Not exactly though, only roughly - because it's still two completely different concepts. In UNIX (including Linux distributions) the file system is used for more than just storage, in Windows it's mainly just used for the storage of files and folders.

Windows generally stores the operating system itself, installed applications, and your user profile folder on the same partition, but in Linux, while you can have both the system itself, applications, and your "home" directory on the same partition; a lot of Linux distributions by default have the system itself and installed applications on a separate partition (being the "root partition") to the "home" directories (by default in a lot of cases stored on the "home partition").

It's one of the hardest concepts to forget when using Linux instead, because "drive letters" are so ingrained when you're so used to using Windows. But then you start using Linux (and/or some other Unix-like system), "drive letters" are meaningless.

If whatever site you used to download whatever software you wanted told you to look for the downloaded package/file in the C:\ drive, you likely downloaded something that will only work on windows. No more specific answer can be given until you give specific info on what you downloaded and from where.

Perhaps the OP wants to run a Microsoft program using Wine (in Mint)- in which case there would be a reference to C:/ - AFAIK
It is possible to do this for many Windows programs - but there is usually a Linux equivalent available.

Given the OP is so sparse many guesses are going to be incorrect, hence my hint to ask the person that first referenced the "download"
If that was not a person, then more detail is required.

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Thanks everyone, I was dual booting with W10 which was giving me hassles so i used LinuxMint to download w10 upgrade,and it was the website telling me to look for c/ drive to install it. To cut a long story short i had a seniors moment, got rid of W10 altogether and i am now happily learning to use LinuxMint. Once again thank you all. Cheers Ken.

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