Top-level directories in UBUNTU

Mel Wilson mwilson-4YeSL8/OYKRWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org
Tue Mar 11 00:29:19 UTC 2008


Paul King wrote:
> Anyone know what the top-level directories are supposed to look like
> under Ubuntu 7.*? This is the output of my "ls -F: command:
> 
> bin/    dev/   initrd/  lib/  opt/   sbin/  usr/      vmlinuz.old@
> boot/   etc/   initrd.img@      media/  proc/  sys/   var/
> cdrom@  home/  initrd.img.old@  mnt/    root/  tmp/   vmlinuz@
> 
> Anything strange here? To me, I am wondering why there are in effect
> two /proc directories (namely /proc and /sys)? initrd* should be
> under /boot, shouldn't it? Any comments? Where can I find the changes
> Ubuntu has made to the file system standard?

I see the same thing on a Ubuntu 7.10 system that hasn't been messed 
with, much.  All the dynamic usb stuff is found under /sys, it could 
be that /proc is being phased out.

	Mel.
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