Quick Start Guide

ContentsDirectory
Usually also contains the shells, such
as Bash.
Static les of the boot loader.
/boot
Files needed to access host-specic
devices.
/dev
Host-specic system conguration les.
/etc
Holds the home directories of all users
who have accounts on the system.
/home
However, root's home directory is not
located in /home but in /root.
Essential shared libraries and kernel
modules.
/lib
Mount points for removable media.
/media
Mount point for temporarily mounting
a le system.
/mnt
Add-on application software packages.
/opt
Home directory for the superuser root./root
Essential system binaries.
/sbin
Data for services provided by the sys-
tem.
/srv
Temporary les.
/tmp
Secondary hierarchy with read-only da-
ta.
/usr
Variable data such as log les.
/var
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