File System

File System

The term filesystem means a way to organize files. Everything in linux is a file, from screen, sockets, commands, mouse, keyboard etc. Linux everything under the root filesystem, The folder include .etc file that is mounted on computer when start runnning.

/bin

Represent binaries and include most of the os binaries. some of the you might know: ls,mv,cp,pwd and more commmands. Most of the tools that install system application mount there binaries in this folder, apt, wget, yum.

/user/bin: A representation of a disk. In the past large amount of pc devices where low in memory, by adding new disk now linux could add new bineraies. Today pc devices as a large amount of disk space, in other word the solution is not needed, to fix the double bin folder linux new version linked /bin into /usr/bin.

/boot

Hold boot realated stuff. On system start the files inside this folder are mounted into RAM. In addition hold the kernel version.

/dev

No its not short of development but devices. The files inside the folder are interfaces for the diffrent devices.

/etc

Include all of the configuration files.

/home