Comments on: Linux Directory Structure Overview

By: tien

tien — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 06:48:55 +0000

do you have any a document about Linux? please shared to me, ok.
thank you administrator!

By: tien

tien — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 06:46:09 +0000

thank you admin

By: Tajinder Singh

Tajinder Singh — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 05:32:39 +0000

I like this post. I don’t think that he had made any wrong article. Because there are thousands of Linux distros are there. and obvious that there are many many improvement in every old version. So directory structure might be not same in every distributions. It is just a basic structure which is probably defined by Mr.Linus Torvald.

By: Dick Wiley

Dick Wiley — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:35:54 +0000

In reply to Rob, he probably doesn’t realize that these directory names originated in UNIX from the beginning, when the normal user terminal was a Model 10 Teletype. Rob should have to use one of those for all his work for a few months (like I did), then he’d be a lot more sympathetic to the guys who created the original names.

By: seeniya syriac

seeniya syriac — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 08:53:09 +0000

it is a useful article to those who don’t know any about the topic.thank u

By: James

James — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:14:02 +0000

Thanks, clear and easy to follow. )

By: S3D

S3D — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 01:42:26 +0000

What ’bout /proc ?

By: Alqin

Alqin — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 23:16:18 +0000

When I install new programs in Ubuntu, where are they installed? In /bin?

By: Stephen Alrich Marshall

Stephen Alrich Marshall — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 14:43:29 +0000

Thanks for the primer, flaming excepted. Concur with commenter annoyance about not getting an introduction to directory system when installing Linux. I still do not understand “nodes” , or where to find my hard drives.

By: Marvin

Marvin — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:45:33 +0000

In my opinion this file structure is seriously messed up because of the lack of a common rigid standard and developers/distros choose to put their binaries and configuration files all over the place. I use Ubuntu on my main PC for over 4 years and I use FreeBSD and Debian/Ubuntu servers in production. Every time I need a specific config change I need to search for the binaries and configuration files. Compiling and installing drivers from the source is my worst nightmare. Linux file structure definitely needs a major rework.

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 02 May 2010 16:16:31 +0000

I agree with one other poster about the directory naming in linux. Whoever thought of that directory naming convention should be punched in the nuts hard and often!

I think this was a decent primer for us new people. Something like this really needs to be done in much more depth though, but it’s good nonetheless.

Ever notice how the “beginning linux” book never cover filename and directory conventions and structure? Drives me nuts. They all pretty much just dive in without that. I had to search a lot of resource3s to find out that executable files weren’t designated by extension, but rather an attribute flag @_@

Can’t wait to get a LAMP system setup to host a site from home =P

By: jaya chandra

jaya chandra — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:27:37 +0000

hi
in the /usr there is another subfolder called etc and include and src are there
and again in include there is sys folder is present
u had not specified that sub folders
please check and correct that
b ye

By: Selvam Porko

Selvam Porko — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:18:13 +0000

Can you check for the ssh daemon, if not running kindly install ssh and check it should be working.

I guess your problem is sorted.

Regards
Selvam Porko

By: Adventuror

Adventuror — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:56:47 +0000

I have installed a “Ubuntu” desktop, and I am unabe to connect via ssh remotely.

Pls help
adventuror@gmail.com

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