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I've been using Linux for about 4 years now, and I've tried to find a document like this a few times and failed. This is probably the best reference on this top

by IsaacL 15y ago

I've been using Linux for about 4 years now, and I've tried to find a document like this a few times and failed. This is probably the best reference on this topic I've seen yet.

nirkage 15y ago
`man hier`
- javert 15y ago
  Wow. How would one go about discovering this?
  - mhurron 15y ago
    apropos hierarchy apropos 'file system'
  - nirkage 15y ago
    `man man` leads you to `man -k "file system"` (or apropos, as mentioned), leads you to ...
- paisible 15y ago
  Very cool - thanks for mentionning this !
kazoolist 15y ago
FWIW, I think the true Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (see other comments on this page) is a much better reference.
Ideka 15y ago
There's https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Filesystem_Hierarchy_St... too. Probably Arch-specific, but I bet most stuff applies to Unix in general as well.