Linux Directory Structure

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This evening I made a new article.
accordance with the title 'The directory structure of Linux'.
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On Windows, programs, data and software that has been installed will be in the directory "Program Files." But on the Linux operating system is not like that. In linux, the directory system will categorize all data files that have been installed.
it will be difficult for us who just use the Linux operating system. But this article I will give a little bit about the directory structure of Linux.

Here is the entire structure along with what is in the Linux operating system:

/Bin - Load a referral program that is part of the Linux operating system. example: cat, cp, ls, more, and tar is located in / bin.

/Boot - contains the Linux kernel and other files needed by LILO and GRUB boot manager.

/Dev - all important files. equipment and hardware such as hard disk flasdisk be in / dev.

/Etc - contains system configuration files and installation scripts in / etc / rc.d subdirectory.

/Home - Home directory is the directory that stores all the files that are managed by the user.

/Lib - this is the directory that contains the library file as the driver module can be loaded on system boot.

/Lost + found - This is the directory for lost files. All disk partition would have lost + found directory by default.

/Media - this is the directory that serves for mounting removable media like CD-ROM, floppy disks and zip drives.

/Mnt - is a directory for mounting a temporary file system.

/Opt - opt merupakandirektori to install additional applications (optional).

/Proc - is a special directory for the virtual file system. He includes information on various aspects of Linux systems and also a special dynamic directory maintains information about the state of the system.

/Root - root is the master of your Linux operating system. All files and directories in logic has been in the directory. root denoted by the symbol "/"

/Sbin - the directory that contains files that are accessible administration such as mount, shutdown, umount.

/Srv - Load the specified server data from related services.


/Sys - a special directory to load information about hardware such as hard disk.


/Tmp - directory that serves to store data temporarily. Contents of this directory are cleared each time the system boots / or restart.


/ Usr - This directory is used to store programs to be installed into the system.

/ Usr/bin - directory containing the files that are accessible to various Linux commands but are not a part of the Linux OS.

/ Usr/include - the directory that contains the file - the file from the C programming language and C + +.

/ Usr/lib - Contains a directory file - the file library for the programming languages ​​C and C + +.

/ Usr/local - Contains a directory of local data. same as / usr.

/ Usr/sbin - Contains a directory command - the command administration.

/ Usr/share - Contains a directory of data that can be used by multiple users as well as pictures and documents.

/ Usr/src - Contains the source code directory for the Linux Kernel.

/ Var - Contains a directory of many system files such as log, mail directories, print, and another - another.

/ Var/cache - a storage directory for cache data from a variety of applications.

/ Var/lib - Contains a directory of information about the status of applications - applications that exist on lniux.

/ Var/lock - Contains a directory of files that are locked to be used by one application only.

/ Var/log - logs Contains a directory of different applications.

/ Var/mail - Contains a directory of the user's email.

/ Var/opt - Contains variable directory for packages stored in the directory / opt.

/ Var/run - Contains data directory which describes the system when you first run a linux system.

/ Var/spool - Contains a directory of data waiting to be processed.

/ Var/tmp - Contains temporary files directory, the contents of this directory is not deleted when the system is turned off.

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