Re: Why are you on a *nix desktop?

:-)

These are all now - and have been for some time - folders in the IFS on the i - you forgot to list /home, where subdirectories normally exist for each user on a *nix box - where things like .profile go - config files that override login and app behavior for each respective user.

Seems I remember some howto's for Linux that describe what each is for, when setting up your file system from scratch, as I used to do 10 years ago.

HTH
Vern

Aaron Bartell wrote:

I don't have a terminology cheat sheet nor was that my major struggle. My major struggle is the file system and what the different folders off of the root are for. I have reviewed a number of explanations of what the different folders are for, but none of them are turning on lights as bright as I'd hoped. Anybody have a definition for the IBM i mind personality?

For example, here is a subset of root folders that I don't know how to logically separate out in my mind:

/bin
/boot
/etc
/initrd
/lib
/opt
/proc
/root
/sbin
/srv
/sys
/usr
/var


Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/


On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Lowary, Jim <jlowary@xxxxxxxx <mailto:jlowary@xxxxxxxx>> wrote:

Glad to see a list like this, although just as it formed I was
slammed with a couple of projects to get done last week and
couldn’t even look at the posts.

I have played around with Ubuntu a little just to broaden my
horizons loading it on an old laptop and then just recently
creating a second partition on windows PC at home. I find that
terminology is the killer for me, anyone know where to find a
cheat sheet on terminology? I’ll look something up and find out
how to do it (ie: like getting my wireless card working under
Ubuntu) only to find that everyone is speaking Greek not Geek ;-)
or maybe it’s vise/versa. Hopefully if I can find the time the
terminology will come.


Anyway good to see this list as a resource to draw from if needed.


Cheers,

-- Jim Lowary