I've been using Linux on and off for years and I've never really understood what these different directories are for. If I don't know where something is I just search for it, though more often than not whatever I'm looking for is somewhere in the home directory. I'm also not sure of the accuracy of this though. I have a VM in /run, and an SSD and thumb drive in /media. I would've expected these to be in /mnt.
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A blast from the past!
Is there a version of this that wasn't awkwardly resized?
Yes, you put the app in /opt, no not in /bin or /usr/bin
Not when I use it!
idk if unix or linux file system
Distros should ship with this this under /readme.jpg
it usually seems more like whatever distro doing things however they want rather than following any standard
New knowledge. Thanks.
FHS is an absolute dumpster fire that would never be dreamed up in this day and age
The icon for media reminds me of a bidet on a floor plan.
Don't forget /auto, for things that get automatically mounted when you first access them (autofs)
Holy shit. I’ve been wondering about this for so long
I rarely spot /srv in the wild.
I use /data for local server data.
Pretty sure openmediavault uses it, but that's the only one I've seen
honestly /home should has never been created we should have kept user homes in /usr