On: Linux Directory Structure (File System Structure) ...

[IsaacL]

I've been using Linux for about 4 years now, and I've tried to find a document like this a few times and failed. This is probably the best reference on this topic I've seen yet.

[kazoolist → IsaacL]

FWIW, I think the true Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (see other comments on this page) is a much better reference.

[nirkage → IsaacL]

`man hier`

[javert → nirkage]

Wow. How would one go about discovering this?

[nirkage → javert]

`man man` leads you to `man -k "file system"` (or apropos, as mentioned), leads you to ...

[mhurron → javert]

apropos hierarchy

apropos 'file system'

[paisible → nirkage]

Very cool - thanks for mentionning this !

[Ideka → IsaacL]

There's https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Filesystem_Hierarchy_St... too. Probably Arch-specific, but I bet most stuff applies to Unix in general as well.