Comments on: Understanding the Linux Directory Layout

By: glbeach

glbeach — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:43:03 +0000

Nicely done, thank you.

By: Yang

Yang — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 09:34:03 +0000

Seems this is the first entry. And I’ll read till the newest one.

Here I go…..

By: Srinivas N

Srinivas N — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:08:12 +0000

Dude,, this is a good start for newbie..thanks a lot..

By: Jestin Joy

Jestin Joy — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:31:29 +0000

Good work. Thanks for the info

By: Installing Eclipse (with PDT) – Ganymede on 64 bit Ubuntu « Cogito, ergo sum

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:17:57 +0000

[...] non-system, binary file and therefore may be installed in the /opt folder in accordance with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. Open up a terminal [...]

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Getting Familiar with Linux Logs — Wed, 13 May 2009 11:01:59 +0000

[...] In almost all Linux distributions the Linux log files are stored in ‘/var/log‘ directory. You can learn more about Linux directory structure in this article. [...]

By: Mark Sanborn

Mark Sanborn — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:37:20 +0000

Well srv is the serve directory so I would just say serve or S.R.V. etc can be pronounced many aways, some thing of it as editable text configuration. I personally pronounce it as etcetera. Some say ett see

By: CB

CB — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:17:33 +0000

Thanks for that. Have bookmarked you.
One vital piece of information is missing – maybe somebody can help: How do you PRONOUNCE etc, srv and mnt?

I always called etc ‘etcetera’ but my friend says ‘ett-kih’. There must be some kind of old-schooler convention about this.

This is mostly an amusing question – but a real one nonetheless: when chatting with another nix-using friend about a problem or configuration I always have a stumble or ‘needing-to-think-twice’ moment when referring to the directories.

I noticed that SUSE used the opt directory a lot.

By: Mark Sanborn

Mark Sanborn — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 20:59:27 +0000

It is for system binaries and other binaries for root only.

By: Mocabilly

Mocabilly — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 12:22:26 +0000

Isn’t the /sbin directory for system binaries?
I think putting it like it would only contain binaries that the root user can execute is a wrong..