Hey, I’ve recently designed a Poster about the FHS since I often forget where I should place or find things. Do you have any feedback how to make it better?

Edit: Put up new version

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    • callcc@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      8·
      11 months ago

      I think because they want to have files from different packages separate and easily addable and removable using symlinks.

      Also some things in the FHS make no sense for modern computers where storage is cheap and system storage is rarely shared amongst systems. The same applies for single-users/desktop machines. But it’s the only standard we have so, why not keep it for now.

    • Korthrun@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      16·
      11 months ago

      Bonus tip: Many distros make this info available on the cli by including a “hier” man page that you can read using the command “man hier”.

      • Toaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        11 months ago

        What an amazing cheat sheet then!

        I’m about to print this out to add to my pile, thanks for taking the time.

  • SciPiTie @iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    This is really helpful, thank you!

    I never understood why the shareable /usr is parent to the non shareable /usr/local. Wouldn’t a /usr/shared be way easier especially in the early network days?

    If anyone has a link or some insights into this historical nitbit I’d highly appreciate it!

  • Scrath@feddit.deEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    I have 2 questions:

    Do I understand the colors correctly in that /home is deprecated and shouldn’t be used? What’s the alternative in that case?

    Where would you guys put configuration files for services? /srv seems like an adequate directory

    • legios@aussie.zoneEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      I’m trying to remember this correctly, but traditionally /home is a symlink of /usr/home. I think that’s deprecated and you should now just have /home

  • dan@upvote.auEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    I’ve never seen /etc/opt used. Usually if an app is in /opt, the entire app is there, including its config which is frequently at /opt/appname/etc/.