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Filesystem hierarchy standard - Linux Tutorial
From the course: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Essential Training
Filesystem hierarchy standard
- One of the things that's very important to know as a system administrator for the Linux operating system is the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. It is a standard that's part of the Linux Standard Base which is a bunch of standards put forth by the Linux Foundation. The Linux Foundation is an organization of Linux operating system vendors who have gotten together and decided to create some standards so that applications that run on top of the Linux operating system don't have to have different versions for every Linux distribution. It's similar to what you see with the POSIX standards created by the IEEE Computer Society, the IEEE being the Institute of Elelectrical and Electronics Engineers. So what we have here is a standard similar to other standards, and as things progress, different organizations are created to be more specific to the topic at hand. Let's take a look at what this hierarchy standard looks like. You can find the standard on the Wiki for the Linux Foundation. From…
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