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The Linux file system and the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

The Linux file system and the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

From the course: Learning CentOS Linux

The Linux file system and the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

- [Instructor] CentOS, along with many Unix-like systems, follows the standard called the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, or FHS, which defines locations, permissions, and file names for system and other files. This standard makes it possible for users and programs to find what they're looking for, in consistent places. More information about the standard is available on the Linux Foundation website. For our purposes here, let's take a look at a few of the commonly used directories in the file system. I've generated this output with a command called tree, which can be installed from the repository. Don't worry about it for now, I just want you to pay attention to the structure of the directories. The most important directory, and the one on which everything else is based, is the root directory, represented with a slash. It's the highest level on the hierarchy, meaning that everything else is contained within it, or is under it. We'll see the slash representing root in absolute file…

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