One fun surprise is that because of codepage reasons, the Windows will use ¥ as a path separator in Japanese. In Korean, it's ₩. These characters represent U+005C, which is \ in Latin-compatible character sets.
First floppy drive was A, Second B, and when internal Hard Drives came along they defaulted to C to be compatible with computers that had at least 2 disk drives.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_letter_assignment?wprov=...
Starting from A and iterating on through Z makes sense, for an OS that's designed for two drives at most. /dev/sda and /dev/sdb are no less arbitrary than A: and B:.
One major difference was that Unix was used on big servers and couldn't fit itself onto a single disk, so /usr had to be created. DOS and Windows never needed a second drive to boot, so they didn't need to embed their resources into the drive hierarchy.
Of course, you can mount NTFS volumes at any directory you wish since at least somewhere in the early 2000s. Very few people do it, but you can!
For example:
$Disk = Get-Disk 2
$Partition = Get-Partition -DiskNumber $Disk.Number
$Partition | Add-PartitionAccessPath -AccessPath "G:\Folder01"HPFS had extended attributes, but not substreams. You are thinking about HFS; substreams were added to NTFS to support storing resource forks on network shares used by Macs.