From the course: Learning Fedora Linux
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Exploring the Linux file system
- [Instructor] Fedora, along with many Unix-like systems, follows a standard called the file system hierarchy standard or FHS, and file names for system and other files. This standard makes it possible for users for in consistent places. For our purposes here, let's take a look called tree, which is handy for showing hierarchical representations of directories. The most important directory, and the one on which everything else is based, is the root directory. You've probably seen the slash representing root in absolute file paths. Under the root directory, there are a number of other directories with special purposes for the system. which contains the command binaries or compiled programs that make the command line environment usable. the Bash shell, grip, ok, and a lot more. represented with an arrow. Bin is actually a sym link or a symbolic link to the USR bin directory. A symbolic link is a pointer to somewhere else in the file system. in the USR bin. The file system will behave as…
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