| Directory
| Use
|
| /home
| User's personal directories
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| /bin
| Standard commands and utilities
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| /usr
| Files and commands used by the system, sorted into several sub directories
|
| /usr/bin
| User oriented commands and utilities
|
| /usr/sbin
| System administration commands and utilities
|
| /usr/lib
| Programming language libraries
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| /usr/doc
| Documentation
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| /usr/man or /usr/share/man
| Files and commands used by the system, sorted into several sub directories
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| /sbin
| System administrator commands for booting the system
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| /var
| Varying files like mailboxes
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| /dev
| Interfaces for devices (terminals, printers, etc)
|
| /etc
| System configuration files and other system files
|