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Linux Directory Structure - FHS (lemm.ee)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Linux file system is ext* tho.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Why is /mnt a "temporary" mounting point? I alwags put my permanent ones there. I'd say /media is temporary...

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

huh... an exe in my /bin ?

sus...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

No I thinks is basically right although could be better worded maybe

/sys is virtual file structure for kernel system info

/proc is virtual file structure of kernel process info

My understanding is /proc came first but was abused/free for all and started being used for all sorts of non standard/process kernel access. So /sys was created with stricter rules to make it more standardised.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)