For me, all I know is that my filesystem store its data on disk somewhere, I don't really have any clue how that's organised. That's pretty much exactly the same level of knowledge I have about my db.
(And yes, I could look into both of them to learn more. And yes, we also have databases and filesystems that get accessed over the network..)
File system paths perhaps sound like a location, but there are no more and no less a location than eg tablenames to me. Or URLs.
In a Filesystem you know where the Data lives, in a Database you know that it lives...but yeah with stuff like Ceph that view gets a little bit foggy.