/boot??”Has the bootable Linux kernel and boot loader configuration files (GRUB).
/dev??”Contains files representing access points to devices on your systems. These
include terminal devices (tty*), floppy disks (fd*), hard disks (hd*), RAM (ram*), and
CD-ROM (cd*). (Users normally access these devices directly through the device files.)
/etc??”Contains administrative configuration files.
/home??”Contains directories assigned to each user with a login account (with the exception
of root).
/media??”Provides a standard location for mounting and automounting devices, such as
remote file systems and removable media (with directory names of cdrecorder,
floppy, and so on).
/mnt??”A common mount point for many devices before it was supplanted by the standard
/media directory. Some bootable Linux systems still used this directory to mount
hard disk partitions and remote file systems.
/proc??”Contains information about system resources.
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/root??”Represents the root user??™s home directory. The home directory for root does not
reside beneath /home for security reasons.
/sbin??”Contains administrative commands and daemon processes.
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