Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 04-08-2006 Installation Manual page 350

Figure 18.4 Excerpt from a Standard Directory Tree
bin boot
vmlinuz
hda
bin
Table 18.1
/
/home
/dev
/etc
/etc/init.d
/bin, /sbin
/usr, /usr/local
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/
dev etc home lib mnt
media
kde gnome
ld.so
sda st0
yxz linux tux X11R6 bin
Mail test.c f2c
bin lib man bin
xdm xterm xv bin
Overview of a Standard Directory Tree
opt proc root sbin srv sys tmp
etc lib local sbin share
lib ftp man doc man
pub
lib faq howto packages
Root directory, starting point of the directory tree
Personal directories of users
Device files that represent hardware components
Important files for system configuration
Boot scripts
Programs needed early in the boot process (/bin) and
for the administrator (/sbin)
All application programs and local, distribution-indepen-
dent extensions (/usr/local)
usr var