Thursday, May 14, 2009

Linux Directory Hierarchy

As mentioned previously, I'm learning Linux and one of the things I'm trying to wrap my head around is the default directories that are created, and what each is for. Today I was confused between the difference between the following:

  • /bin
  • /sbin
  • /usr/bin
  • /usr/sbin

In researching this I found that Linux has a man(ual) page for the Linux file system hierarchy. You can view this, which a description of what each of these default directories does, by typing "man hier" at the shell prompt.

Thanks to this forum post that mentioned this.

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