N900 filesystem

This article is here to help you find your files you see in file manager but can't seem to find via terminal.

Note: power users should know how to use find, so lets keep this article beginner-friendly!


Location table

File manager path Real path Size of the partition
root / 256MB
space for software installations etc. /home 2GB
Nokia N900 /home/user/MyDocs 27GB
Nokia N900/Documents /home/user/MyDocs/.documents
Nokia N900/Images /home/user/MyDocs/.images
Nokia N900/Sounds /home/user/MyDocs/.sounds
Nokia N900/Videos /home/user/MyDocs/.videos
Memory card /media/mmc1 Memory cards size

And if you still don't find what you're looking for, you can try to use find at terminal as following:

find /path/ -name 'filename*'

Path can be for example / but it will give you errors if you dont have Root access and it makes the search to last longer. And if you don't give exact filename, remember to use wildcards(*)!

If you are further interested about the filesystem, please see Unix directory structure article from wikipedia.