Linux Directory Structure

so into our previous video we have

discussed about the Linux distributors

we have seen some of the distributors of

Linux operating system now here in this

video I am going to tell you about the

Linux directory structures now what is

Linux directory structure now basically

in Linux operating systems keep

everything in completely different way

not like your Windows operating systems

like when you install the Windows

operating system you directly get your C

Drive D Drive and you can keep the data

into it but you don't know where the

system files are stored and where your

devices are located so as I said your

Linux is completely open source

so you can see everything well here

generally devices your programs your

configurations are stored so here we are

going to talk about your Linux directory

structures so delete selected structures

generally stores the data in two

completely different locations unlike

your windows so here everything is

stored as an file and folders even your

devices are stored into their files in a

sporadic Widger folders so the folders

has multiple sub directories sub folders

into that you also keep some of the

files so basically you should understand

what this folder contains because when

you install the operating system you

won't find any C Drive D do I eat right

or your my computer but everything you

will find that is your slash which is

called as front slash or a mount point

under that one point you will find a

different directories which we are going

to see over here will find a directory

called as slash bin slash bin is a

binary files so what are the commands

you are going to store will be located

into the binary file and all this

directories which you can see here are

generally created into the mount point

which is your front slash so this mount

point contains all the particular

directory each and every directory we

can see over here contains different

tasks and contains different contents so

very first we are going to talk about

slash pal

so whatever the commands generally you

have or you generally use like creating

a user creating a file creating a

directory everything will be stored into

this slash bin which contains all the

files for your

complete commands so basically when you

run the command this binary files get

worked and it provides you the output

the next we have that is slash boot so

like your Windows operating system you

might have seen some system reserved

partitions into the operating systems

like your Windows 7 contains that your

Windows 8 contains it as well as tens

container so what the system resolve

condition is it contains your booting

firm same here into the Linux operating

system we have all the booting files

installed into this particular directory

by default so when you install the next

operating system you will find the

booting files get loaded into the boot

and here the booting file is completely

different here you will find grub or

grub 2 as your booting firm and in

earlier version of your Linux operating

system

you used to also find Lillo operating

systems which we are going to discuss

later the third file which we have that

is your slash tape this directory

contains all the devices files like if

you have connected your hard disk if you

have created a partition entry to the

hard disk everything will be stored into

devices if you connect any particular

USB Drive if you do use a DVD Drive or

CD drive this will again be stored into

the devices so whichever the device you

connect either it isn't directly

attached devices or a removable or hug a

hot plug and play devices all will be

stored into slash tape next we have that

is /e TC now whatever the configuration

you do you define a host name you define

IP address you can figure some servers

like your FTP and I ass or any

particular servers all this particular

services all this particular settings

will be stored under /e TC so whichever

the configuration is all the

configuration file you will be finding

into / e TC the next directory which we

have that is slash home so slash home is

a directory which contains the home

directory of your users now we can see

multiple users or we can create multiple

users into the Linux operating systems

so when this users get login or the data

which they are going to create on their

desktops on their documents or any of

their directories

this will be created and saved into

these /home directory so if suppose I

have free ager a user with named user

one so the home directory would create a

separate folder for user 1 and whenever

the user will login this particular data

of this user 1 will be stored into slash

home slash user 1 directory so same way

for other user like your user 2 it will

create an under directory so none of the

user will be able to see each other's

data that generally is stored into the

home but it is basically only for your

standard users which is a non root or

non super users next directory which we

have that is slash lip so lip contains

all the library files not if suppose you

want some help if you want to get some

help regarding any particular command or

how to configure that particular come on

or you can see the parameters 1d

parameters we have for a particular

command all the help option you get into

the library the next we have that is

called as a slash media so slash media

is basically a directory created so that

you can find this particular hot plug

and play devices automounter Dover here

now basically in previous organization

we never used to have the slash media

but now we have this last media so that

it is easier for the users to work on

the desktop of any of the Linux

distributors so that if they connect any

hot pluggable device like your USB or

you connect a DVD drive directly it will

be mounted on your desktop means if you

will be seeing it on your desktop

because it is by default stored and

located in to slash media directory next

we have that is /opt so all the

optimized status whatever you have that

will be stored into these /opt next we

have that is called as a slash bin so

slash bin is a super bill now all here

we had discussed about the bin when I

have told you it contains all the binary

files but this binary files are only for

these standard users like if I want to

create a new user using a particular

standard user I won't be able to do that

when you have the same thing into

Windows operating

right from a standard user you cannot

create a new user because it's

completely command are stored in two

different location even in Windows and

even in the Linux operating system

so basically when the basic user or we

can see a standard users get logged in

they generally exist slash pin but what

if about your super user super user is

nothing but a root user root user is

just like an administrator you have into

the windows so this particular user root

user have access to everything he can do

everything into the Linux operating

system he can modify anything he can

create anything he can configure

anything or delete anything so this

super user use this /s bin for storing

its all the particular binary file and

what are the commands is going to use

will be pulled by this particular binary

folder itself now next we have that is

called as a slash SRV so all the service

related data with services are on which

services are started on the boot or

which services are stopped all this

particular data you will find into slash

SRV the next directory which we have

that is your slash stamp you may be

knowing about the temp directory so if

suppose you are doing some temporary

tasks like you are copying a DVD from

one drive to your hard disk or you are

creating a DVD DVD images okay so if you

are using the DVD DVD image

it can produce tours the data into your

RAM for a particular period of time so

that it stores into this /t EMP folder

into your windows and here we have a

slash temp so whatever the temporary

files you want you can store into the

temp once your system is rebooted this

particular files will get flushed out so

that's the reason they are called as a

volatile storage for your Linux

operating system the next directory

which we have that is your slash USR so

slash USR contains all the user programs

now for example you have installed some

package or you have downloaded some

program into your Linux operating system

all the particular files of that

particular program will be stored in to

slash USR

you sir will create all the samples

files of that particular program so if

suppose you do not know how to configure

particular server or particular program

you will be having those particular

sample files pre-configured into the

/usr you can get the data you can copy

those particular files into /et see

where we keep all the configuration and

configure it so /usr contains all the

particular programs applications tools

and the services which you've installed

data will be stored into it the next

directory which we have that is your

slash bar it contain all the variable

files so basically what our variable

files variable files or variable data

are those things which are only changed

like for example I can say you have

defined an IP address to your machine on

a dynamic way so dynamic way means it is

going to change whenever this server

releases this particular IP address so

you might have seen when you connect

your wireless devices your IP changes

same way if you Mike you can see about

your DNS if you know about DNS Janus is

a domain name system it contains all the

hostname of all the particular systems

which are connected in your particular

domain so if a domain name changes or if

your IP address of your local host

changes it automatically replicate or

change that into it okay so those data's

be generally vary which you not which

are not constant are generally stored in

to slash work the next directory which

we have that is slash wrote basically

slash suit is a home directory of your

super user root slash home contains this

standard users home directory but root

stores its complete data into a

different directory called as / root the

next directory which we have /proc so

this prop contains the information about

the devices you have connected and their

process now for an example my memory

which I've connected that actually is

used by your system so we can see

whether this memory is completely

utilized or not what is the process what

is the progress rate of the you know the

RAM which we are using what is the

service which we are using what is

eight of it what is the utilization of

your different devices different

resources connected to in their system

you can get all the information into

/proc so basically the last directory

which we have that is called as a loss

plus found so lossless found is a

directory which we have into all the

distributors

now this particular directory contains

the data which is misplaced like we do

not have a proper location where it

should be stored so those particular

data by default moves into your loss

plus form so this is the directory

structure of your Linux now if I am

going to add any device I'll be adding

into the day if I want to add anything

into the media I can add directly into

the media or if I connect into the

machine my pendrive or my infant's AVD

all do automatically it will move into

your slash media so basically we will be

working as we use into the Windows

operating system but in back-end your

data will be stored in two different

places this is what we have seen about

the directory structure into the next

videos we are going to explore more of

your Linux operating system