[Novices] directories (was permissions & sharing between users)

[John Mathieson]

I would sure vote for it.

Adam Tauno Williams wrote:

>>Ah, the fun of File System Hierarchy in Linux.  Not only do we get /bin 
>>and /sbin, but there are versions of  the above in /usr and /usr/local.  
>>And of course there's /opt, /home, /srv and a lot more junk in /var than 
>>you might think.  Does anybody actually follow the "official" standard 
>>for much of anything, or does everybody just put stuff where it seems to 
>>work?
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>Most distributions follow the standard;  more and more with each
>release.
>
>/usr is for stuff that comes with the distribution
>
>/usr/local is traditionally for software you add,  but /usr/local
>quickly becomes a mess.
>
>Hence /opt which has been around for longer than Linux but seem to be
>making a come back.  Third-party packages make a directory under /opt
>and dump themselves there - like /opt/hylafax, /opt/jabber, etc...
>
>/home is for user's data,  real user's, not even root counts.
>
>/var is for system & service data, although a couple of distributions
>also use /srv/... for services that might have ALOT of data.
>
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>
>>Think it's worth making a presentation out of this?
>>    
>>
>
>Sure!  Are you volunteering or asking?  :)
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