FHS Principles
The FHS is based on the current practices of the Linux and BSD communities.
It also draws on the filesystems of other OS's and other applicable standards.
The FHS defines two orthogonal categories of files.
- Shareable vs. Unshareable.
- Variable vs. Static.
Shareable data is data that can be shared between multiple hosts, Unshareable
data can't. So /home is normally shareable, while /dev normally isn't, and
device lock files (/var/lock) can never be shared.
Static data is data that dosn't change
without the system administrators intervention.
Variable data is anything else that does.
|
shareable |
unshareable |
| static |
/usr
/opt
|
/etc
/boot
|
| variable |
/var/mail
/var/spool
|
/var/run
/var/lock
|
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