From: mburr AT scn DOT org (Michael Burr)
Subject: Re: Standard Directory Trees ?
14 Nov 1998 05:18:03 -0800
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To: <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>, "John Mullee" <john AT exmachina DOT net>

Also being new to un*x, I've had similar difficultly figuring out where
things should be.  I also found it frustrating trying finding a resource I
could use as a reference.

The following is  a link to the Filesystem Heirarchy Standard, which (as the
name indicates) documents a standard filesystem tree, and provides
guidelines and rationale as to where files shold be placed.  I am finding it
very useful.

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/

I wish that any one of the numerous 'Unix/Linux/Etc. for Newbies' type of
books would include a section with simialr material. I spent a lot of time
looking, but with no success until I found the web-page.

Michael Burr


-----Original Message-----
From: John Mullee <john AT exmachina DOT net>
To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Thursday, November 12, 1998 6:27 PM
Subject: Standard Directory Trees ?


>Being new to un*x in general, I probably have more trouble than most
>figuring out where things should be;
>I also experience confusion when installing other people's software
>who different paths for different things;
>
>I wonder if some kind of consensus might be reached vis-à-vis
>recommended or default paths, as it strikes me that just
>saying 'create a /tmp directory' after installing
>is not really enough to get people started.
>
>$ gcc --print-search-dirs
>prints a list of paths not anything like what's on my system..
>
>Maybe a consensus is impossible, but perhaps future
>cygwin install programs could set up some
>minimal amount of stuff?
>
>Comments or suggestions?
>BTW I already looked a Earnie Boyd's stuff;
><http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gw32/MyFavoredDirectoryStructure.html>
>but I wonder if there could be some convergence in different
>people's trees!
>
>Comments?
>
>John
>
>=== === === === === === === === === === === ===
>My mount looks like this:
>Device           Directory           Type        Flags
>R:               /                   native      text=binary
>D:               /var                native      text=binary
>D:\temp          /tmp                native      text=binary
>C:               /sys                native      text=binary
>C:\usr           /usr                native      text=binary
>C:\cygnus        /cygnus             native      text=binary
>C:\cygnus        /logopolis/monitor/noer/b20    native      text=binary
>\\.\tape1:       /dev/st1            native      text!=binary
>\\.\tape0:       /dev/st0            native      text!=binary
>\\.\b:           /dev/fd1            native      text!=binary
>\\.\a:           /dev/fd0            native      text!=binary
>
>where R: is a 6MB ramdisk. It gets loaded like this:
>--8<-- cygnus.bat
>@ECHO OFF
>SET MAKE_MODE=UNIX
>SET CYGWIN=  binmode ntea mixed tty strip-title glob
>SET HOME=R:
>SET
PATH=R:\bin;C:\cygnus\cygwin-b20\H-i586-cygwin32\bin;%SystemRoot%\system32;%
SystemRoot%;c:\uti;c:\uti\dos_utils;.;
>R:
>xcopy C:\cygnus\ramdisk\*.* R:\ /T /E
>xcopy C:\cygnus\ramdisk\*.* R:\ /S /D /C /H /K
>R:\bin\bash --login
>xcopy R:\*.* C:\cygnus\ramdisk\  /S /D /E /C /H /R /U
>C:
>--8<--
>
>--8<-- R:\.profile
>export TERM=linux
>export PROMPT_COMMAND='cmd /c title `dirs`'
>export PS1='\e[4mbash\$\e[27m '
>cd /
>echo Hello $USERNAME
>alias ls="ls -F --color"
>--8<--
>
>C:\cygnus\ramdisk>tree
>+---bin
>+---cygnus
>+---etc
>+---mnt
>¦   +---cd-rom
>¦   +---floppy
>¦   +---hda1
>¦   +---hda2
>¦   +---zip
>+---sys
>+---tmp
>+---usr
>+---var
>
>with symlinks to appropriate places.
>
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