Here is a quick list of the linux file system (FS) directories and what they are for.\u00a0 This has helped me find my way around a fair bit.<\/p>\n
\/bin<\/strong> – binaries, basic binary files\/programs – everyday commands, system wide etc Here is a quick list of the linux file system (FS) directories and what they are for.\u00a0 This has helped me find my way around a fair bit. \/bin – binaries, basic binary files\/programs – everyday commands, system wide etc \/boot – boot files (boot loader and kernels – like the files you’d find in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[132,131,34,123],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-computer","tag-file-system","tag-filesystem","tag-linux","tag-linux-mint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":630,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\/boot<\/strong> – boot files (boot loader and kernels – like the files you’d find in c:\\ ? )
\n\/cdrom<\/strong> – cdrom (legacy, not really used anymore, CD-ROMs used to be mounted here)
\n\/dev<\/strong> – devices, all hardware is represented by files
\n\/etc<\/strong> – et cetera, all config files (system wide “all users”) superuser directory use “sudo …”
\n\/home<\/strong> – home folder, like “c:\\users” on windows – user settings, configs etc
\n\/lib<\/strong>
\n\/lib32<\/strong>
\n\/lib64<\/strong> – libraries, used by \/bin and \/sbin, programs get library files from here similar to shared *.dll files in windows
\n\/lost+found<\/strong> – recycle bin (this is a hidden directory)
\n\/media<\/strong> – media mount, permanently mount secondary devices, devices mounted here (system mounted here)
\n\/mnt<\/strong> – mount, devices mounted here (manually mounted here)
\n\/opt<\/strong> – optional, manually installed files\/programs from vendors installed here
\n\/proc<\/strong> – processes, sudo files here, all process information running is stored here
\n\/root<\/strong> – root user’s home folder
\n\/run<\/strong> – run, temp file system – loaded in RAM, has run-time information
\n\/sbin<\/strong> – system binaries, system admin has access to
\n\/snap<\/strong> – snap packages, self contained programs
\n\/srv<\/strong> – service, directory where server programs store files for external users
\n\/sys<\/strong> – system, folder to interact with the kernel (every time system boots)
\n\/tmp<\/strong> – temporary, temp files used by apps etc,
\n\/usr<\/strong> – Unix System Resources (like \\windows\\system32 folder), user application space, where bin apps installed that are used
\nby the user, note: \/bin is used by system
\n\/var<\/strong> – variable, contains files that are expected to grow, crash info, logs, printer spools etc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"