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?
i wonder why nixos adopted a different hierarchy…
Filesystem Hierarchy Standard - Reference Poster / Cheatsheet
Submitted 11 months ago by callcc@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Discover5164@lemm.ee 11 months ago
callcc@lemmy.world 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.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
But it’s the only standard we have so, why not keep it for now.
Because making new standards is fun.
Discover5164@lemm.ee 11 months ago
thank you
SciPiTie@iusearchlinux.fyi 11 months ago
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!
Markaos@lemmy.one 11 months ago
No comment on sensibility, but technically both are equally difficult - mount the parent filesystem, then mount the child filesystem into an empty directory in the parent. Doesn’t matter which one is where, it’s all abstracted away at this level anyway.
SciPiTie@iusearchlinux.fyi 11 months ago
But when I mount a shared /usr on a remote machine it will always have the mount point /usr/local as empty folder - and either have an empty folder or have a mount target that is dependent on a network resource - that’s why for me it’s so unintuitive.
But then again I started with network stuff way more than a decade after all this got created 🤣
AFLYINTOASTER@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I am new to Linux, is this the current “standard” file system?
korthrun@lemmy.sdf.org 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”.
callcc@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yes, it is. FHS stands for Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.
AFLYINTOASTER@lemmy.world 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.
dan@upvote.au 11 months ago
I’ve never seen
/etc/optused. Usually if an app is in/opt, the entire app is there, including its config which is frequently at/opt/appname/etc/.Scrath@feddit.de 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
callcc@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The colors are confusing. I meant to mark /home as non-standard since it’s not mandated by the FHS.
legios@aussie.zone 11 months ago
I’m trying to remember this correctly, but traditionally /home is a symlink of /usr/home.
ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
New to Linux, this is fantastic. Thank you.
detonator9798@lemmy.one 11 months ago
Where to mount permanent HDDs? Always thought it was in /mnt but the description says it’s for temporarily filesystems…
callcc@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think the FHS doesn’t really tell you where. In the end you can out them wherever you want as long there is no conflict with the FHS. Even /mnt/something seems fine. Just not really recommended.
vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
man hier
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grehund@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Dark mode?
callcc@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Added!
jkozaka@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Is that the only thing that changes between versions?