Linux File System

Linux File System

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/BOOT

Files Need to be run when shell run

/DEV

Device FIles

/USR

/LOCAL

/BIN

Binaries

Locally compiled

/BIN

User binaries

non-essential installed binaries

/BIN

Binaries：

Essential executables

/SBIN

System Binaries

essential executables for super user（root）

/HOME

User

/SHARE

/alex

/LIB

Libraries

Shared code between binaries

/TMP

Temporary Files

Won’t be persisted between reboots

/VAR

Variable Files

logs and cache files

/ETC

ET CETERA

Editable Text Config

/PROC

Illusionary Files System:

Doesn’t actually exsist on the disk but but is created in memory on the fly by the Linux kernel to keep trackt of running processes

/OPT

Optional or Add-on software