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Linux Directory Structure - FHS (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by sag@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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[–] Dasnap@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

/bin confused me for a while because I thought it meant 'this stuff is trash, don't worry about it'.

[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 4 points 2 months ago

If my /bin contains exe files, something has gone very wrong somewhere...

Also, all these infographics are a sad casualty of the /usr/bin merge.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Linux file system is ext* tho.

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 3 points 2 months ago

idk if unix or linux file system

[–] toothpaste_sandwich@feddit.nl 3 points 2 months ago

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

[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is there a version of this that wasn't awkwardly resized?

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[–] Affidavit@lemm.ee 3 points 2 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.

[–] amw3i7dwgoblinlabs@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

huh... an exe in my /bin ?

sus...

[–] michdavelz@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Is it just me, or are the definitions for /sys and /proc mixed up?

[–] Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

Nah, it's just that /proc is incorrect - it contains information about running processes, as well as kernel data structures as visible by the process reading them.

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[–] kuneho@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

reminded me of this picture

[–] elvith@feddit.org 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Since almost everything on the right would be located in /home/ on the left, it should include some of the subdirectories of %windir%\

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[–] sol6_vi@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

wow i have needed this forever and im printing it and pinning it to my wall

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