Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Linux file system

Some of the Linux directories that may be of interest to you include the following:
· /bin — Contains common Linux user commands, such as ls, sort, date, and chmod.
· /dev — Contains files representing access points to devices on your systems. These include terminal devices (tty), floppy disks (fd), hard disks (hd), RAM (ram), and CD−ROM (cd).
· /etc — Contains administrative configuration files.
· /home — Contains directories assigned to each user with a login account.
· /mnt — Provides a location for mounting devices, such as remote file systems and removable media (with directory names of cdrom, floppy, and so on).
· /root — Represents the root user’s home directory.
· /sbin — Contains administrative commands and daemon processes.
· /tmp — Contains temporary files used by applications.
· /usr — Contains user documentation, games, graphical files (X11), libraries (lib), and a variety of other user and administrative commands and files.

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