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home | helpHIER(7) MINIX 3 Programmer's Manual HIER(7) NAME hier - Description of the file system hierarchy DESCRIPTION A tour through the MINIX 3 directory hierarchy. / This is where the whole tree starts, and is called root. /bin/ Contains the utility programs; see also /sbin/, /usr/bin/, /usr/sbin. cat show files, cat(1) cp copy files and directories, cp(1) mount mount file systems, mount(1) sh shell ... /dev/ Contains device, block, or other special files. See mknod(2). console computer's console device, tty(4) fd* floppy disk, fd(4) c?d* hard disk, hd(4) null accetps and discards all input; produces no output tty* terminal device, tty(4) zero the zero device; produces null bytes ... /etc/ System configuration and data files; see also /usr/etc/. ethers ethernet addresses database, ethers(5) fstab filesystem table, fstab(5) group group permissions file hostname.file name of the local system, usage(5) hosts TCP/IP hosts database, hosts(5) hosts.equiv trusted remote users or hosts, rhosts(5) inet.conf internet server config file, inet(8) keymap keymap for custom keyboard, loadkeys(1) man.conf configuration file for man(1), man.conf(5) motd system message of the day, login(1) mtab mounted file system table, fstab(5) passwd user database, passwd(1) profile system wide shell profile rc system startup script, boot(8) resolv.conf TCP/IP domain name system, resolv.conf(5) services TCP/IP names to services serv.access internet service access control, serv.access(5) shadow shadow password database, passwd(5) termcap terminal type descriptions, termcap(1) ttytab terminals device table, ttytab(5) utmp user login database, utmp(5) ... /home/ Contains home directories for users. bin home directory for user bin ast Honorary home directory of Andrew S. Tanenbaum /mnt/ Mount point for temporarily mounted file system. /proc/ Mount point for the process file system, which provides information about running processes and the kernel. /root/ This directory is the home directory for the root user. .ashrc ash (shell) startup configuration, ash(1) .exrc ex/vi (editor) startup configuration, vim(1) .profile login shell profile configuration .rhosts remote users permission file, rhosts(5) .ssh/ contains user private keys, known_hosts and authorized_keys, ssh(1) /sbin/ Contains system programs and administrative utilites. /tmp/ Contains small, short-lived temporary files; see also /usr/tmp/. /usr/ Contains source and majority of system utilities and files adm/ Contains System administration files. lastlog last logins, login(1) log default log file old last weeks log files wtmp user logins and logouts, login(1) *.cache cached data of some programs ... ast/ Contains user skeleton files. bin/ Common user programs and utilities. man show manual pages, man(1) ... etc/ More system data files; see also /etc. daily daily system cleanup rc continued system initialization, boot(8) include/ Standard C include files. arpa include files for Internet service protocols machine machine specific include files minix MINIX 3 kernel include files netinet include files for Inernet standard protocols, see inet(8) sys system C include files. ... lib/ Compiler libraries and other support files. cawf/ text formatter support files, cawf(1) crontab cron jobs, cron(8) dict/ word lists libc.a C library ... man/ Contains manual pages in subdirectories according to the man page sections. See man(1). cat*/ preformatted manual pages man0/ section 0, Book style user commands man1/ user commands man2/ system calls man3/ library routines man4/ device files man5/ file formats man6/ games man7/ miscellaneous man8/ system utilities whatis table of manual pages, whatis(5) ... mdec/ Contains binaries associated with various boot programs. boot bootstrap code, installboot(8) ... pkg/ Contains programs which are related to local softwares. bin/ utilities for locally installed programs etc/ local configuration and data files man/ manual pages associated with local programs ... preserve/ Contains saved elvis editor buffers. See elvprsv(8), elvrec(1). spool/ Contains spooled files for various commands and mail programs. at/ spooled jobs for at(1) at/past/ completed at(1) jobs crontabs/ spooled jobs for cron(8) lpd/ spooled files for printing mail/ mail drops, mail(1) user mailbox of user ... src/ Contains system and command source files. LICENSE MINIX 3 license to use Makefile targets for building and installing libraries, utilities and boot files benchmarks/ test programs for system and graphic tests commands/ source file for command utilities common/ include/ includes common to NetBSD and Minix lib/ lib files common to NetBSD kernel and libc docs/ documents related to recent source changes drivers/ source files for various device drivers etc/ source for files in /etc/ include/ standard C include source files kernel/ kernel source files lib/ source for libraries in /usr/lib/ man/ manual pages servers/ source files for system servers share/ source for files in /usr/share/ test/ source files for system test programs tools/ kernel image making tools ... tmp/ Contains large, short lived temporary files. SEE ALSO ls(1), man(1), find(1), grep(1), mount(1). NOTES Not all of the directories and files shown are present. They must be created as needed. BUGS Many of the listed manual references do not yet exist. AUTHOR Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl) MINIX 3 2011-06-23 HIER(7)
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