Re: Why complicated directory structure in Linux

Dave Uhring wrote:
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 14:09:51 +1000, Ron House wrote:

Dave Uhring wrote:
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:18:25 -0700, mydejamai wrote:


Why is Linux directory structure laid out so, what is the rationale

Why don't you read the man page for hier before asking such a dumb
question?
Why don't you take your civility pill each morning before you turn your
computer on? Maybe the question was a bit naive, but I've used linux
over a decade without knowing that there was a man page called hier, and
if I had known, I would not have guessed what was in it.

No need to guess; all you needed to do was type `man hier`. An
identically named man page exists in the BSDs while in Solaris the page
is named filesystem(5).

Well, the file system hierarchy standard contains not only the layout for
the file system, but also a rational for each item being where it is. On my
machine, _man hier_ shows only an outdated version of the FSHS. Besides, a
newbie might not know that _man hier_ is the way to get that documentation
because he might not know there is a _man_ command, and even if he did, he
might not know that _hier_ is the name of the manual page to get what he
might have been looking for. Besides, he said he wanted to know _why_ the
file system was laid out as it was. One could even infer from that that he
already knew _how_ it was laid out.

You don't want
to answer the question, fine. So bugger off and let someone else have a go.

Fine, then go at it. Duplicate the documentation and waste everyone
else's bandwidth.

There is an alternative, of course: just post a link to the standard.

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/

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