linux mis

The linux folder structure:

/bin         essential command binaries, e.g cat, ls, cp

/sbin        system binaries

/dev         device files, e.g. /dev/sda1 points to the first (a) hard drive and 1st partition

/etc         configuration files, all sorts of xxx.conf

/home        home folder for users

/lib         libraries essential for the binaries in /bin and /sbin

/usr         secondary hierarchy for read-only user data; contains the majority of user utilities and apps

/var         variable files, which is expected to continually change during normal operations, such as logs, spool files.

/tmp         temporay files, not preserved after reboot, /var/tmp keeps preserved temporary files, such as web logs

/media       mount points for removeable mdeida e.g cd rom

/mnt         temporaily mounted file systems

/opt         optional application software packages

/run         run time variable data

/srv         site specific data served by this system, such as data and scripts for web servers, data offered by ftp, etc.

/sys         contains information about devices, drivers and some kernel features

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