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 updated the poster: https://whimsical.com/fhs-L6iL5t8kBtCFzAQywZyP4X use the link to see online.

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  • dan@upvote.au
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    11 months ago

    I’ve never seen /etc/opt used. Usually if an app is in /opt, the entire app is there, including its config which is frequently at /opt/appname/etc/.

    • seaQueue@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      /opt is kinda legacy at this point. That used to be the location where you’d install software manually in the past but I haven’t seen it used for some time, it was more common in the 00’s.

      • dan@upvote.au
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        11 months ago

        I still put all my standalone apps in there (meaning apps that are often statically compiled and expect the executable, logs, and config to be in the same directory), as well as apps that have their own docker-compose.yml file. Should I be putting them somewhere else? I know /srv exists but I’ve never used it and I don’t think Debian creates it by default.

  • Max_Power@feddit.deEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Great but what I’m missing is the information that “usr” does not stand for “user”, like many people think or even say. If it would the name could actually be “user” and not “usr”.

    The chart actually does not say what exactly it stands for. It’s “user resources” AFAIK.

    It’s worth clearing this up in my opinion.

    • DefederateLemmyMl@feddit.nl
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      11 months ago

      That’s just retconning/backronyming it.

      /usr does historically stand for user. It’s where the user home directories were on old Unix versions.

  • Admax@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Damn that’s some great work ! When I started linux I wish I had found such ressources, I was really curious what each of these directories were for.

    Would you mind if your material was reused (with credit) for education purposes ?

    • callcc@lemmy.worldOP
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      11 months ago

      I’d be more than happy if this was used. Do whatever you want with it as long as you abide by the CC BY-SA-4.0 license. This means you can share freely and modify as long as you keep the authorship information and share with same license.

  • ancap shark@lemmy.today
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    11 months ago

    This is a very useful, very well done chart, congratulations.

    But what a mess is FHS. Easily the worst thing of linux design for me