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### 2-cent Tips: understand file system hierarchy right from the man pages

Mulyadi Santosa [mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com]

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:28:18 +0700

Probably one of my shortest tips so far:

Confused with all those /proc, /sys, /dev, /boot etc really mean and why on Earth they are there? Simply type "man hier" in your shell and hopefully you'll understand

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Mulyadi Santosa Freelance Linux trainer and consultant

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Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:26:58 -0400

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 02:28:18PM +0700, Mulyadi Santosa wrote:

    > Probably one of my shortest tips so far:

And one of the best, too. Wonderful! I'd pulled together something similar for a teaching manual that I wrote for a client, and it took me a few hours. Wish I'd known about it then.

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Dr. Parthasarathy S [drpartha at gmail.com]

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:27:17 +0530

Thanks a lot. Thats is a discovery for me. The "man hier" has always been there and I have been going around the world asking people dumb questions about the Linux tree.

We learn a lot everyday, thanks to gurus like you,

partha

On 23/07/2010, Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com> wrote:

    > Probably one of my shortest tips so far:
    >
    > Confused with all those /proc, /sys, /dev, /boot etc really mean and
    > why on Earth they are there? Simply type "man hier" in your shell and
    > hopefully you'll understand
    >
    > --
    > regards,
    >
    > Mulyadi Santosa
    > Freelance Linux trainer and consultant
    >
    > blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com
    > training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com
    >
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Mulyadi Santosa [mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com]

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 02:22:06 +0700

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 14:57, Dr. Parthasarathy S <drpartha at gmail.com> wrote:

    > Thanks a lot. Thats is a discovery for me. The "man hier" has always
    > been there and I have been going around the world asking people dumb
    > questions about the Linux tree.

You welcome....actually I learn that from somebody else in a forum. So with great respect to "him", actually we should credit man pages maintainer (Michael Kerrisk IIRC?) for creating such helpful pages :D

-- regards,

Mulyadi Santosa Freelance Linux trainer and consultant

blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com

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