Unlike Microsoft Windows, which represents drives as letters that precede pathnames (e.g., C:\), QNX Neutrino represents disk drives as regular directories within the pathname space. Directories that access another filesystem, such as one on a second hard disk partition, are called mountpoints.
Usually the primary disk-based filesystem is mounted at / (the root of the pathname space). A full QNX Neutrino installation mounts all additional disk filesystems automatically under the /fs directory. For example:
So, while in a DOS-based system a second partition on your hard drive might be accessed as D:\, in a QNX Neutrino system you might access the second Power-Safe filesystem partition on the first hard drive as /fs/hd0-qnx6-2.
For more information on where to find things in a typical QNX Neutrino pathname space, see “Where everything is stored,” later in this chapter. To learn more about mounting filesystems, see Working with Filesystems.