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HIER(7) Miscellaneous Information Manual HIER(7) NAME hier -- layout of filesystems DESCRIPTION A sketch of the filesystem hierarchy. / root directory of the filesystem /bin/ user utilities fundamental to both single-user and multi-user environments /dev/ block and character device files MAKEDEV script for creating device files; see makedev(8) fd/ file descriptor files; see fd(4) /etc/ system configuration files and scripts localtime local timezone information; see ctime(3) disklabels/ backup disklabels; see disklabel(8) kerberosIV/ configuration files for the kerberos version IV; see kerberos(1) mtree/ mtree configuration files; see mtree(1) namedb/ named configuration files; see named(8) /mnt/ empty directory commonly used by system administrators as a temporary mount point /sbin/ system programs and administration utilities fundamental to both single-user and multi-user environments /stand/ programs used in a standalone environment /tmp/ temporary files, usually a mfs(8) memory-based filesystem (the contents of /tmp are usually NOT preserved across a system re- boot) /usr/ contains the majority of user utilities and applications bin/ common utilities, programming tools, and applica- tions contrib/ large packages contributed to Berkeley by outside parties games/ useful and semi-frivolous programs include/ standard C include files X11/ C include files for X11 window system arpa/ C include files for Internet service protocols kerberosIV/ C include files for kerberos authenti- cation package; see kerberos(1) machine/ machine specific C include files net/ misc network C include files netimp/ C include files for IMP protocols; see imp(4) netinet/ C include files for Internet standard protocols; see inet(4) netiso/ C include files for ISO standard proto- cols; see iso(4) netns/ C include files for XNS standard proto- cols; see ns(4) nfs/ C include files for NFS (Network File System) pascal/ include files for pc 1 protocols/ C include files for Berkeley service protocols sys/ system C include files (kernel data structures) ufs/ C include files for UFS (The U-word File System) lib/ archive libraries uucp/ UUCP configuration files (historically placed; to be moved) libdata/ misc. utility data files libexec/ system daemons & system utilities (executed by other programs) local/ local executables, libraries, etc. obj/ architecture-specific target tree produced by build- ing the /usr/src tree old/ programs from past lives of BSD which may disappear in future releases sbin/ system daemons & system utilities (executed by users) share/ architecture-independent ascii text files calendar/ a variety of pre-fab calendar files; see calendar(1) dict/ word lists; see look(1) words common words web2 words from Webster's 2nd In- ternational papers/ reference databases; see refer(1) special/ custom word lists; see spell(1) doc/ misc documentation; src for most of the printed BSDBSD manuals (available from the USENIX association) games/ ascii text files used by various games man/ manual pages me/ macros for use with the me macro package misc/ misc system-wide ascii text files termcap terminal characteristics database; see termcap(5) mk/ templates for make; see make(1) ms/ macros for use with the ms macro package skel/ example . (dot) files for new accounts tabset/ tab description files for a variety of terminals; used in the termcap file; see termcap(5) tmac/ text processing macros; see nroff(1) and troff(1) zoneinfo/ timezone configuration information; see tzfile(5) src/ BSD and/or local source files bin/ src for files in /bin contrib/ src for files in /usr/contrib etc/ src for files in /etc games/ src for files in /usr/games include/ src for files in /usr/include kerberosIV/ src for kerberos version IV lib/ src for files in /usr/lib libexec/ src for files in /usr/libexec local/ src for files in /usr/local old/ src for files in /usr/old pgrm/ src for programming tools in /usr/bin sbin/ src for files in /sbin share/ src for files in /usr/share sys/ kernel src files usr.bin/ src for files in /usr/bin usr.sbin/ src for files in /usr/sbin /var/ multi-purpose log, temporary, transient, and spool files account/ system accounting files acct execution accounting file; see acct(5) at/ timed command scheduling files; see at(1) backups/ misc. backup files db/ misc. automatically generated system-specific data- base files games/ misc. game status and log files log/ misc. system log files wtmp login/logout log; see wtmp(5) mail/ user mailbox files preserve/ temporary home of files preserved after an acciden- tal death of an editor; see ex(1) quotas/ filesystem quota information files run/ system information files describing various info about system since it was booted utmp database of current users; see utmp(5) rwho/ rwho data files; see rwhod(8), rwho(1), and ruptime(1) spool/ misc. printer and mail system spooling directories ftp/ commonly ~ftp; the anonymous ftp root directory mqueue/ undelivered mail queue; see sendmail(8) output/ line printer spooling directories secretmail/ secretmail spool directory; see xget(1) uucp/ uucp spool directory uucppublic/ commonly ~uucp; public uucp temporary directory tmp/ temporary files that are kept between system re- boots /386bsd pure kernel executable (the operating system loaded into mem- ory at boot time). SEE ALSO ls(1), apropos(1), whatis(1), whereis(1), finger(1), which(1), find(1), grep(1), fsck(8) HISTORY A hier manual page appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX. FreeBSD 1.0 July 23, 1991 HIER(7)
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