[techtalk] Thought this was useful

[Carla Schroder]

This is great. I hope there are no penalties for revealing the "secrets of 
the temple"!

Carla

At 10:07 AM 6/19/00 -0400, Lilly S. wrote:
>This is for all of us newbies. I thought it's a nice "cheat-sheet".
>
>Lilly
>
>------
>/ - 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
>
>
>
>
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