Linux Filesystem Hierarchy - Part Two

[vickeypalzor]

and what is the difference between the logfiles held in /tmp and /var ??

[vickeypalzor]

how would we differentiate between a /dev and /proc?

[sifarin]

Great Explanation.

[lordslavi]

Only a person who understands things really well, can explain it in a simple language like you. You are not just repeating memorised terms and phrases. Loved it!!! Awesome work mate!!!

[jonmaxell]

Really good stuff.

[vsr8282]

Thanks lot for such nice presentation

[jaworskij]

OpenOffice will store itself into /opt if you have that set as a separate partition.

[JeyPeyy]

Hi! I have a question about the /root directory. I noticed you had a file in there, but I don't. Is this any bad? Can this be why I have a problem using su in the terminal? My password don't work when running the su command.

[cyborgtroy]

If you're using Ubuntu, you don't usually use 'su' to run commands. You can either use 'sudo' in front of the command or use 'sudo su' to switch to root, then use any command that isn't rm -rf / or something like that.

[schmidtbag]

in some distros, if you never log into root, there won't be files in there. its just like any other account - if you don't log into it, theres no reason for something to show up in there

[JeyPeyy]

Schmidtbag:

If you look closely I wrote that more than one year ago (actually almost 2 years ago), so I know that by now.

Thanks anyways, it can be helpful for others.

[chadica]

Truly useful information, been mucking about with linux for years and never really thought to figure out the directory structure, thanks

[comradjoel]

Cool info for beginners...

Well done tutorial...

[MultiMediaFreak1986]

Thank You For All The Information. That Video Was Very Well Done.

[ronnietucker]

Another great video Chess, much appreciated by this Linux n00b :)  i'm just catching up with LinuxReality...

[benchodbosrino]

It's strange that he said that. In the first podcast he said "/root" was in the "/" folder.

[TechAnvil]

/ is the "root" directory. /home/root/ is the home directory for the 'root' user. Get it?

[benchodbosrino]

Yes I do, but I'm sure I heard him state correctly that there's a "/root" directory and then he goes and spoils it by saying there's a "/home/root" directory.

[ronnietucker]

/ is the 'root' of the drive, nothing really to do with the root users data...

[benchodbosrino]

thanks

[gilesc]

actually /root is not in /home because '/home' may be a network mount, and root's home folder is useful to have available if you boot up in single user mode where your network is not available.