Filesystem Hierarchy Standard - Reference Poster / Cheatsheet [Dark mode in details]

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Damn that's some great work ! When I started linux I wish I had found such ressources, I was really curious what each of these directories were for.

Would you mind if your material was reused (with credit) for education purposes ?

We need some sort of linux police to enforce this stuff, it's like a warzone out there.

Related: man hier

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I really like this, but can I have a black background version please?

We need something like this for home, I hate that programs like steam and firefox place themselves directly into home instead of ~/.config and ~/.llocal.

I even move my personal themes to /usr/share/themes because not everything works with ~/.local/share/themes and needs a ~/themes directory instead.

Super useful, thanks. Actually made a lot of things click in my head about how Linux works.

When did /home get deprecated? Is /usr/local the replacement?

Sorry for the n00b question (I'm not a noob, but I have been off Linux for a few years), figured the answer may be useful to other users too

I'm surprised to hear /home is non standard.

This is a very useful, very well done chart, congratulations.

But what a mess is FHS. Easily the worst thing of linux design for me

I don't understand the ambiguity of where to put your projects.

I've typically always put things under /opt/ TIL /etc/opt was where the config should go.

Great but what I'm missing is the information that "usr" does not stand for "user", like many people think or even say. If it would the name could actually be "user" and not "usr".

The chart actually does not say what exactly it stands for. It's "user resources" AFAIK.

It's worth clearing this up in my opinion.

laughs in guix

Nicely done! Do you perchance have any hi res version?

how is /usr/local local and not system-wide? i though it was for programs you compiled yourself?

Laughs in Nix

So why does my system mount my drives to /run/user/1000…?

I've never seen /etc/opt used. Usually if an app is in /opt, the entire app is there, including its config which is frequently at /opt/appname/etc/.

And /net is usually autofs mounted.

Looks great!

What would a use case be for

>/usr/bin

versus

/usr/local/bin

What do you mean by locally vs site wide? For /usr/local that’s usually stuff installed from outside of the distributions normal packaging mechanism. E.g. if you build something from source using “make”, the “make install” would install it there by default (though that is also configurable.)

Also not sure we want to say /mnt is necessarily temporary. Any mount pionts there could easily be added to fstab.

Nice, but how do I zoom on mobile?