This is for all of us newbies. I thought it's a nice "cheat-sheet".
Lilly
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/ - the root tree
| -- bin - programs considered necessary
| -- boot - linux boot image
| -- dev - devices, like serial ports, printers, hard drives
| -- etc - configuration files for network, X11, mail, etc.
| -- home - where users live (including sysadmin)
| -- lib - software libraries
| -- lost+found - recovered files (from e2fsck)
| -- mnt - where you mount other filesystems
| | -- cdrom
| | -- dos
| | -- flash
| | -- floppy
| -- proc - kernel, device, process status files
| -- root - where the sysadmin works, but doesn't live
| -- sbin - system binaries (many root-only)
| -- tmp - temp files stored, deleted from here
| -- usr - hosts much, much software, libraries
| | -- X11R6 - X Window System software
| | -- bin - more software
| | -- dict - dictionaries
| | -- doc - FAQs, HOW-TOs, software documentation
| | -- etc - software configuration files
| | -- games - fun, fun, fun!
| | -- i486-linuxaout
| | -- include - header files for programming
| | -- info - GNU information
| | -- lib - more software libraries
| | -- libexec
| | -- local - programs not on CD-ROM
| | | -- bin
| | | -- doc
| | | -- etc
| | | -- games
| | | -- info
| | | -- lib
| | | -- man
| | | -- sbin
| | | -- src - source code to programs
| | -- man - manual pages
| | | -- man 1...9n
| | -- sbin
| | -- share
| | -- src - source for linux!!!
| | | -- linux -> linux 2.0.30
| | | -- linux-2.0.30
| | -- tmp -> ../var/tmp
| -- var - system logs, compressed manual pages
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