What is a directory (File Systems) ?

Question

I’ve googled it and still don’t really get what a directory is, a folder, an archive, a partition?

In: Technology

Answer 1

It’s a location (i.e. a folder) in a hierarchical file storage system. That is, it represents a path to walk down from the root directory to that location.

It’s really just a way of referring to some location within the file storage system.