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Filesystem Hierarchy Standard - Reference Poster / Cheatsheet [Added dark mode] (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by callcc to c/selfhosted
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Hey, I've recently designed a Poster about the FHS since I often forget where I should place or find things. Do you have any feedback how to make it better?

Edit: Put up new version

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But when I mount a shared /usr on a remote machine it will always have the mount point /usr/local as empty folder - and either have an empty folder or have a mount target that is dependent on a network resource - that's why for me it's so unintuitive.

But then again I started with network stuff way more than a decade after all this got created 🤣

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

~~I think the idea at the time was that if /usr is unavailable, you won't be doing much with the system anyway (other than fixing the configuration).~~

Nevermind, apparently the original meaning had nothing to do with a network (TIL for me), so our discussion is kinda moot. See section 0.24 in this 2.9BSD (1983) installation guide

Locally written commands that aren't distributed are kept in /usr/src/local and their binaries are kept in /usr/local. This allows /usr/bin, /usr/ucb, and /bin to correspond to the distribution tape (and to the manuals that people can buy). People wishing to use /usr/local commands are made aware that they aren't in the base manual.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Ohhh now that is awesome and makes sense! Thanks a lot for that find :)