Comments on: Linux Directory Structure Overview

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:38:49 +0000

any chance the directories could be called something meaningful like binaries or programs, settings, etc? Or does the kernel have a limited vocabulary?

By: Pasindu

Pasindu — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:37:15 +0000

Hi all,

I’m new comer in linux
It useful my further knowledge……

Thanx to all
pasindu

By: David Juma

David Juma — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:38:06 +0000

A nice article.

By: Magoo

Magoo — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:11:55 +0000

It helped me

By: Adarsh

Adarsh — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:03:28 +0000

Awesome
that is really helpfull for users , who are working on linux
but don’t know basics of linux

By: Directory

Directory — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:13:20 +0000

Very informative article, which I found quite useful. Cheers ,Jay

By: Aruna

Aruna — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:48:54 +0000

Hi guys,
I want create partions for each director.I know that 100Mb more than enough to /boot directory. Anyone has idea about how much space distribute for each directory in the file hierarchy.

By: sandeeprhce5

sandeeprhce5 — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 06:00:41 +0000

Very Good tutorials for new user.

By: steveL

steveL — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:45:47 +0000

I agree the descriptions of dev and sys are atrocious; it’s a nice newbie explanation tho (nice diagram too;) Yes it should be corrected.

“Also found here are the include directory with include files” er whut?
“A temporary file system which hold temporary files” hmm.

By: Iain

Iain — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:39:02 +0000

GNU/Linux is not case sensitive; some filesystems it supports are. You can install GNU/Linux on a FAT32 partition, and it won’t have any case sensitivity.

By: Alex Reicher

Alex Reicher — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:46:57 +0000

The wording of the this piece is not good — extensive editing is in order.

In particular, the descriptions of /dev and /sys are downright misleading. /dev contains device nodes, not device drivers (which may be linked into the kernel image or reside in separate files under /lib/modules). /sys contains machine-readable textual descriptions or kernel objects, such as modules, devices, buses etc.