Hey, I’ve recently designed a Poster about the FHS since I often forget where I should place or find things. Do you have any feedback how to make it better?

Edit: Put up new version

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  • SciPiTie @iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
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    11 months ago

    This is really helpful, thank you!

    I never understood why the shareable /usr is parent to the non shareable /usr/local. Wouldn’t a /usr/shared be way easier especially in the early network days?

    If anyone has a link or some insights into this historical nitbit I’d highly appreciate it!

    • Markaos@lemmy.oneEnglish
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      11 months ago

      No comment on sensibility, but technically both are equally difficult - mount the parent filesystem, then mount the child filesystem into an empty directory in the parent. Doesn’t matter which one is where, it’s all abstracted away at this level anyway.

      • SciPiTie @iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
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        11 months ago

        But when I mount a shared /usr on a remote machine it will always have the mount point /usr/local as empty folder - and either have an empty folder or have a mount target that is dependent on a network resource - that’s why for me it’s so unintuitive.

        But then again I started with network stuff way more than a decade after all this got created 🤣