08-Filesystem-Hierarchy.md

Filesystem Hierarchy

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In this section, lets take a look at the filesystem hierarchy

• Linux uses single rooted, inverted tree like file system

  • /home : It is the location that contains the home directories for all users, except the root user (root user home directory is located at /root)

  • /opt : If you want to install any third party programs put them in the /opt filesystem.

  • /mnt : It is the default mount point for any partition and it is empty by default. It is used to mount filesystems temporarly in the system

  • /tmp : It is used to store temporary data

  • /media : All external media is mounted on /media

  • /dev : Contains the special block and character device files

  • /bin : The basic programs such as binaries cp, mv, mkdir are located in the /bin directory

  • /etc : It stores most of the configuration files in Linux.

  • /lib : The directory /lib and /lib64 is the place to look for shared libraries to be imported into your program

  • /usr : In older systems, /usr directory is used for User Home Directories, however in the modern linux operating systems it is the location where all user land applciations in their data reside

  • /var : It contains variable data like mails, log files

    

To print all the mounted filesystems, run df (disk filesystem) command

$ df -hP