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Christopher Negus

"Linux Bible, 2008 Edition: Boot up to Ubuntu, Fedora, KNOPPIX, Debian, openSUSE, and 11 Other Distributions"


 /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.
bin/ dev/ etc/ home/
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root/
chris/ mary/ tom/
briefs/ memos/ personal/
tmp/ ...
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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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