Intro to File Directory
- Ankur Desa
- Dec 26, 2015
- 1 min read
Hello Everyone,
This articles is for everyone moving over to Linux from any platform, those who wanted to know what the Directory Structure for Linux looks like (see image below)
The explainations to the content or the role of the directories are:
/ This directory is called superuser home directory.It is the top of file system structure.All other directory are mounted under it.
/boot This directory contain the kernal image file.This also contain the files related to booting the system such as bootloader.
/etc It contain the whole system configuration file.
/home This is the all users home directory.
/mnt This is a generic mount point under which you mount your filesystems such as cdrom,floppy.
/proc It is not a real file system, it is a virtual file system.This directory is empty until the proc file system is mounted.
/sys Modern Linux distributions include a /sys directory as a virtual filesystem (sysfs, comparable to /proc, which is a procfs), which stores and allows modification of the devices connected to the system.
/dev This directory contain the devices nodes through which the operating system can access hardware and software devices on the system.
/bin This directory contain the command used by superuser and normal user.
/sbin This directory contain the command used by superuser only.
/lib It contain the library required for running the additional application and running the linux kernal.It also contain the library essential for binaries in /bin and /sbin.
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