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Linux Directory Structure - FHS (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

I don't trust a graphic which explains /boot as "system boot loader files"...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

It kind of makes sense on many BIOS/UEFI-less systems where e.g. Uboot is used. And it does contain things like kernel images, sometimes initRD files etc. (which may not be bootloader files but are still system boot files).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why? What's inaccurate about it? I have no idea and would like to learn.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's not wrong, but it feels a bit like some tech articles you'll see which are obviously just created to fluff up a CV. I wouldn't say avyttring here is flat out wrong, just kinda... lacking.

But yeah, /boot holds "system boot loader files", sure, but that's a bit vague. It should contain your kernel and initramcpio and IIRC Grub also had its config here. That's pretty much it. I would've rather said /boot contains the kernel.

"device files" it's so vague that it's almost wrong IMO. At first glaze I would've thought that it means drivers rather than, say, "interfaces to devices"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Well that's a shame for me. This graphic finally made the Linux file directory structure make sense to me