[ Thanks to Steve
Emms for this link. ]
“Finding your way around Linux can be difficult if you don’t
know the purpose of each directory. The Filesystem Hierarchy
Standard (FHS) attempts to make this easier by standardising the
location of Linux commands, files, devices for the many Linux
distributions. FHS defines a common arrangement of the many
files and directories in Linux systems (the filesystem hierarchy)
that many different developers and companies have agreed to use.
The following table explains most of the important
directories…”
“At the installation stage many distributions can configure your
system so that some of these directories are on separate
partitions. There are a number of good reasons for this… Having
/home on its own partition means that users’ data can easily be
backed up. User applications can be easily upgraded in this case
because /usr is on a separate partition. Of course having all of
the above top level directories on separate partitions would be
taking it too far, inevitably one or more partitions would run out
of space.”
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