LinuxFilesystemTreeOverview
Differences between revisions 3 and 5 (spanning 2 versions)
|
Size: 2933
Comment: typo...it's "home sweet home" not "home sweat home" :)
|
← Revision 5 as of 2008-08-06 16:28:19 ⇥
Size: 71
Comment: converted to 1.6 markup
|
| Deletions are marked like this. | Additions are marked like this. |
| Line 1: | Line 1: |
| "Linux systems organized files in a hierarchical filesystem tree, relationships are thought of in teams of children and parent. Here, a parent may have multiple children, but a child can only have one parent. In Ubuntu, root filesystem (/) become a parent, and then travel down into directories and subdirectories, so matter how many directories do you have, they only always have one parent (/)." == Ubuntu GNU/Linux Filesystem Tree Overview == {{{ -/ |--/bin |--/boot |--/cdrom |--/dev |--/etc |--/initrd |--/home | |--/home/sweet | |--/home/user |--/lib |--/lost+found |--/media | |--/media/cdrom | |--/media/hda* |--/mnt |--/opt |--/proc |--/root |--/sbin |--/srv | |--/srv/www |--/sys |--/tmp |--/usr | |--/usr/bin | |--/usr/doc | |--/usr/games | |--/usr/include | |--/usr/info | |--/usr/lib | |--/usr/local | |--/usr/sbin | |--/usr/share | |--/usr/src | |--/usr/X11R6 |--/var |--/var/log }}} == What's in a Name? == '''/bin''' Is a place for most common use Linux program, like ls, mount, rm, and chmod. '''/boot''' Store Linux kernel, a ramdisk image and bootloader configuration files (Lilo or Grub). '''/dev''' For device files, these include hard disk(''/dev/hda*''), RAM(''/dev/ram''), CD-ROM(''dev/cdrom'') and terminal devices(''/dev/tty''). '''/etc''' Contains configuration files for administration task. Some of files, such as passwd file, apache config, network config store in ''/etc''. '''/home''' Home sweet home, place for users' home directories. '''/lib''' Contains very important dynamic libraries and place for kernel modules '''/lost+found''' Some trash goes here! '''/media''' Directory for mounting devices, such as external hard disk or removeable media (floppy, cdrom, dvdrom). '''/mnt''' Same as ''/media'', use to mounting devices, Since Breezy Ubuntu doesn't use ''/mnt'' as a default mounting directory, they move into ''/media''. '''/opt''' Use to store addition software for your system. '''/proc''' A virtual filesystem that provides a mechanism for kernel to send information to processes. '''/root''' The root user's home directory '''/sbin''' Contains important administrative programs also daemon processes. '''/srv''' The data directories of services such as HTTP (''/srv/www'')or FTP server. '''/sys''' A ''/proc'' like file systems. '''/tmp''' Place for temporary files used by applications. '''/usr''' System resources, contains subdirectories such as ''/usr/bin'', ''/usr/lib'', ''/usr/share'', ''/usr/include'' and ''/usr/doc''. '''/var''' Contains Directories of variable data that change rapidly. Inside there important subdirectory ''/var/log'' that manages logfiles of your system. == From Here to Where? == * [http://www.pathname.com/fhs Filesystem Hierarchy Standard] ---- CategoryDocumentation |
#REFRESH 0 http://help.ubuntu.com/community/LinuxFilesystemTreeOverview |
LinuxFilesystemTreeOverview (last edited 2008-08-06 16:28:19 by localhost)