[techtalk] Thought this was useful

[Lilly S.]

This is for all of us newbies. I thought it's a nice "cheat-sheet".

Lilly

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/ - the root tree
| -- bin - programs considered necessary
| -- boot - linux boot image
| -- dev - devices, like serial ports, printers, hard drives
| -- etc - configuration files for network, X11, mail, etc.
| -- home - where users live (including sysadmin)
| -- lib - software libraries
| -- lost+found - recovered files (from e2fsck)
| -- mnt - where you mount other filesystems
|   | -- cdrom
|   | -- dos
|   | -- flash
|   | -- floppy
| -- proc - kernel, device, process status files
| -- root - where the sysadmin works, but doesn't live
| -- sbin - system binaries (many root-only)
| -- tmp - temp files stored, deleted from here
| -- usr - hosts much, much software, libraries
|   | -- X11R6 - X Window System software
|   | -- bin - more software
|   | -- dict - dictionaries
|   | -- doc - FAQs, HOW-TOs, software documentation
|   | -- etc - software configuration files
|   | -- games - fun, fun, fun!
|   | -- i486-linuxaout
|   | -- include - header files for programming
|   | -- info - GNU information
|   | -- lib - more software libraries
|   | -- libexec
|   | -- local - programs not on CD-ROM
|   |   | -- bin
|   |    | -- doc
|   |    | -- etc
|   |    | -- games
|   |    | -- info
|   |    | -- lib
|   |    | -- man
|   |    | -- sbin
|   |    | -- src - source code to programs
|   | -- man - manual pages
|   |    | -- man 1...9n
|   | -- sbin
|   | -- share
|   | -- src - source for linux!!!
|   |    | -- linux -> linux 2.0.30
|   |    | -- linux-2.0.30
|   | -- tmp -> ../var/tmp
| -- var - system logs, compressed manual pages