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All rights reserved. .\" .\" %sccs.include.redist.roff% .\" .\" @(#)hier.7 8.1 (Berkeley) 06/05/93 .\" .Dd .Dt HIER 7 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm hier .Nd layout of filesystems .Sh DESCRIPTION A sketch of the filesystem hierarchy. .Bl -tag -width "/stand/" .It Li / root directory of the filesystem .It Li /bin/ user utilities fundamental to both single-user and multi-user environments .It Li /dev/ block and character device files .Pp .Bl -tag -width MAKEDEV -compact .It Li MAKEDEV script for creating device files; see .Xr makedev 8 .It Li fd/ file descriptor files; see .Xr \&fd 4 .El .It Li /etc/ system configuration files and scripts .Pp .Bl -tag -width "disklabels/" -compact .It Li localtime local timezone information; see .Xr ctime 3 .It Li disklabels/ backup disklabels; see .Xr disklabel 8 .It Li kerberosIV/ configuration files for the kerberos version IV; see .Xr kerberos 1 .It Li mtree/ mtree configuration files; see .Xr mtree 1 .It Li namedb/ named configuration files; see .Xr named 8 .El .It Li /mnt/ empty directory commonly used by system administrators as a temporary mount point .It Li /sbin/ system programs and administration utilities fundamental to both single-user and multi-user environments .It Li /stand/ programs used in a standalone environment .It Li /tmp/ temporary files, usually a .Xr mfs 8 memory-based filesystem (the contents of /tmp are usually NOT preserved across a system reboot) .It Li /usr/ contains the majority of user utilities and applications .Pp .Bl -tag -width "libdata/" -compact .It Li bin/ common utilities, programming tools, and applications .It Li contrib/ large packages contributed to Berkeley by outside parties .It Li games/ useful and semi-frivolous programs .It Li include/ standard C include files .Pp .Bl -tag -width "kerberosIV/" -compact .It Li X11/ C include files for X11 window system .It Li arpa/ C include files for Internet service protocols .It Li kerberosIV/ C include files for kerberos authentication package; see .Xr kerberos 1 .It Li machine/ machine specific C include files .It Li net/ misc network C include files .It Li netimp/ C include files for IMP protocols; see .Xr imp 4 .It Li netinet/ C include files for Internet standard protocols; see .Xr inet 4 .It Li netiso/ C include files for ISO standard protocols; see .Xr iso 4 .It Li netns/ C include files for XNS standard protocols; see .Xr \&ns 4 .It Li nfs/ C include files for NFS (Network File System) .It Li pascal/ include files for pc 1 .It Li protocols/ C include files for Berkeley service protocols .It Li sys/ system C include files (kernel data structures) .It Li ufs/ C include files for UFS (The U-word File System) .El .Pp .It Li lib/ archive libraries .Pp .Bl -tag -width Fl -compact .It Li uucp/ UUCP configuration files (historically placed; to be moved) .El .It Li libdata/ misc. utility data files .It Li libexec/ system daemons & system utilities (executed by other programs) .It Li local/ local executables, libraries, etc. .It Li obj/ architecture-specific target tree produced by building the /usr/src tree .It Li old/ programs from past lives of BSD which may disappear in future releases .It Li sbin/ system daemons & system utilities (executed by users) .It Li share/ architecture-independent ascii text files .Pp .Bl -tag -width "calendar/" -compact .It Li calendar/ a variety of pre-fab calendar files; see .Xr calendar 1 .It Li dict/ word lists; see .Xr look 1 .Pp .Bl -tag -width Fl -compact .It Li words common words .It Li web2 words from Webster's 2nd International .It Li papers/ reference databases; see .Xr refer 1 .It Li special/ custom word lists; see .Xr spell 1 .El .Pp .It Li doc/ misc documentation; src for most of the printed .Bx BSD manuals (available from the .Tn USENIX association) .It Li games/ ascii text files used by various games .It Li man/ manual pages .It Li me/ macros for use with the me macro package .It Li misc/ misc system-wide ascii text files .Bl -tag -width Fl -compact .It Li termcap terminal characteristics database; see .Xr termcap 5 .El .It Li mk/ templates for make; see .Xr make 1 .It Li ms/ macros for use with the ms macro package .It Li skel/ example . (dot) files for new accounts .It Li tabset/ tab description files for a variety of terminals; used in the termcap file; see .Xr termcap 5 .It Li tmac/ text processing macros; see .Xr nroff 1 and .Xr troff 1 .It Li zoneinfo/ timezone configuration information; see .Xr tzfile 5 .El .Pp .It Li src/ BSD and/or local source files .Pp .Bl -tag -width "kerberosIV/" -compact .It Li bin/ src for files in /bin .It Li contrib/ src for files in /usr/contrib .It Li etc/ src for files in /etc .It Li games/ src for files in /usr/games .It Li include/ src for files in /usr/include .It Li kerberosIV/ src for kerberos version IV .It Li lib/ src for files in /usr/lib .It Li libexec/ src for files in /usr/libexec .It Li local/ src for files in /usr/local .It Li old/ src for files in /usr/old .It Li pgrm/ src for programming tools in /usr/bin .It Li sbin/ src for files in /sbin .It Li share/ src for files in /usr/share .It Li sys/ kernel src files .It Li usr.bin/ src for files in /usr/bin .It Li usr.sbin/ src for files in /usr/sbin .El .El .It Li /var/ multi-purpose log, temporary, transient, and spool files .Pp .Bl -tag -width "preserve/" -compact .It Li account/ system accounting files .Pp .Bl -tag -width Fl -compact .It Li acct execution accounting file; see .Xr acct 5 .El .Pp .It Li at/ timed command scheduling files; see .Xr \&at 1 .It Li backups/ misc. backup files .It Li db/ misc. automatically generated system-specific database files .It Li games/ misc. game status and log files .It Li log/ misc. system log files .Pp .Bl -tag -width Fl -compact .It Li wtmp login/logout log; see .Xr wtmp 5 .El .Pp .It Li mail/ user mailbox files .It Li preserve/ temporary home of files preserved after an accidental death of an editor; see .Xr \&ex 1 .It Li quotas/ filesystem quota information files .It Li run/ system information files describing various info about system since it was booted .Pp .Bl -tag -width Fl -compact .It Li utmp database of current users; see .Xr utmp 5 .El .Pp .It Li rwho/ rwho data files; see .Xr rwhod 8 , .Xr rwho 1 , and .Xr ruptime 1 .It Li spool/ misc. printer and mail system spooling directories .Pp .Bl -tag -width Fl -compact .It Li ftp/ commonly ~ftp; the anonymous ftp root directory .It Li mqueue/ undelivered mail queue; see .Xr sendmail 8 .It Li output/ line printer spooling directories .It Li secretmail/ secretmail spool directory; see .Xr xget 1 .It Li uucp/ uucp spool directory .It Li uucppublic/ commonly ~uucp; public uucp temporary directory .El .Pp .It Li tmp/ temporary files that are kept between system reboots .El .It Li /vmunix pure kernel executable (the operating system loaded into memory at boot time). .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr \&ls 1 , .Xr apropos 1 , .Xr whatis 1 , .Xr whereis 1 , .Xr finger 1 , .Xr which 1 , .Xr find 1 , .Xr grep 1 , .Xr fsck 8 .Sh HISTORY A .Nm hier manual page appeared in .At v7 .