Re: Why are you on a *nix desktop?

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

:-)

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
>
>