Set: Linux - FHS (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard)

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/files necessary to obtain/repair a system ("root").
/binbinaries for single user mode, for all users.
/bootfiles necessary to boot a system.
/devdevices.
/etcsystem-wide configuration files.
/homeusers' home dirs (not "your home directory"!).
/liblibraries for binaries.
/mntother mounted filesystems.
/mediatemporarily mounted media.
/optadditionally installed software.
/procprocess and kernel stati.
/roothome directory for user root.
/sbinsystem binaries (for root mainly).
/srvfiles provided by services running on the host.
/tmptemporary files.
/usrsecondary hierarchy for user data.
/usr/localtertiary hierarchy for user data.
/varvariable files.

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Terms 18
Creator noemig
Created December 15, 2008
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Subjects computing, linux
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...in which directories one can expect
which files, and what each directory should be used for

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