FHS

Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

This standard consists of a set of requirements and guidelines for file and directory placement under UNIX-like operating systems. The guidelines are intended to support interoperability of applications, system administration tools, development tools, and scripts as well as greater uniformity of documentation for these systems


 * http://www.pathname.com/fhs/


 * http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html

Requirements

The following directories, or symbolic links to directories, are required in /.

Directory	Description bin	Essential command binaries boot	Static files of the boot loader dev	Device files etc	Host-specific system configuration lib	Essential shared libraries and kernel modules media	Mount point for removeable media mnt	Mount point for mounting a filesystem temporarily opt	Add-on application software packages sbin	Essential system binaries srv	Data for services provided by this system tmp	Temporary files usr	Secondary hierarchy var	Variable data