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Linux Directory Structure - FHS (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

A blast from the past!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Yes, you put the app in /opt, no not in /bin or /usr/bin

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Distros should ship with this this under /readme.jpg

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

idk if unix or linux file system

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I've been using Linux on and off for years and I've never really understood what these different directories are for. If I don't know where something is I just search for it, though more often than not whatever I'm looking for is somewhere in the home directory. I'm also not sure of the accuracy of this though. I have a VM in /run, and an SSD and thumb drive in /media. I would've expected these to be in /mnt.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

it usually seems more like whatever distro doing things however they want rather than following any standard

[–] markstos 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I rarely spot /srv in the wild.

I use /data for local server data.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Holy shit. I’ve been wondering about this for so long

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

The icon for media reminds me of a bidet on a floor plan.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Don't forget /auto, for things that get automatically mounted when you first access them (autofs)

[–] Resol 1 points 4 months ago

New knowledge. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

honestly /home should has never been created we should have kept user homes in /usr

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

why

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Because housing prices are ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 months ago (8 children)

This is one of my biggest gripes stopping me from switching to Linux. I just can't give-up windows' partitions. I find Unix/Linux file system to be incompatible with how I like storing my files.

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