The Linux directory tree (FHS): what each directory is for

30 min Ubuntu 24.04

Objective

Know where everything is on a Linux system: configuration, logs, programs, user data, temporary files. Thanks to a common standard, this map is the same on Red Hat, Debian and Ubuntu.

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