Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

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Summary

The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard describes/determines the conventional filesystems structure for GNU/Linux and other UNIX-like operating systems. It is maintained by the Linux Foundation and is currently on version 3.

Standard directories

• /bin
• /boot
• /dev
• /etc
• /home
• /lib
• /lib64
• /media
• /mnt
• /opt
• /proc
• /run
• /sbin
• /srv
• /sys
• /tmp
• /usr
• /var

External resources

• https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs-3.0.html
• https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/lsb/fhs
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard