Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 4.5.0 Reference Manual page 52

Chapter 3. File System Structure
arp, clock,halt, init, fsck.*, grub, ifconfig, mingetty, mkfs.*, mkswap,
reboot, route, shutdown, swapoff, swapon
2.1.10. The
/srv/
The directory contains site-specific data served by your system running Red Hat
/srv/
Enterprise Linux. This directory gives users the location of data files for a particular service,
such as FTP, WWW, or CVS. Data that only pertains to a specific user should go in the
directory.
Note
Please be aware that data files currently located in
future releases.
2.1.11. The
/sys/
The directory utilizes the new
/sys/
increased support for hot plug hardware devices in the 2.6 kernel, the
information similarly held in
information in regards to hot plug devices.
To see how certain USB and FireWire devices are actually mounted, refer to the
and
/sbin/hotplug /sbin/udev
2.1.12. The
/usr/
The directory is for files that can be shared across multiple machines. The
/usr/
directory is often on its own partition and is mounted read-only. At a minimum, the following
directories should be subdirectories of
/usr |- bin/ |- etc/ |- games/ |- include/ |- kerberos/ |- lib/ |- libexec/
|- local/ |- sbin/ |- share/ |- src/ |- tmp -> ../var/tmp/ |- X11R6/
Under the directory, the
/usr/
system-wide configuration files,
contains binaries and other Kerberos-related files, and
kerberos/
and libraries that are not designed to be directly utilized by users or shell scripts. The
directory contains small helper programs called by other programs,
administration binaries (those that do not belong in the
that are not architecture-specific,
System (XFree86 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux).
2.1.13. The
/usr/local/
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Directory
Directory
virtual file system specific to the 2.6 kernel. With the
sysfs
, but displays a hierarchical view of specific device
/proc/
man pages.
Directory
/usr/
subdirectory contains executables,
bin/
is for games,
games
is for source code, and
src/
Directory
/var/
:
contains C header files,
include/
lib/
directory),
/sbin/
X11R6/
/home/
may move to
/srv/
directory contains
/sys/
/usr/
contains
etc/
contains object files
libexec/
is for system
sbin/
contains files
share/
is for the X Window
in