For many systems out there, /bin and /lib are no longer a thing. Instead, they are just a link to /usr/bin and /usr/lib. And for some systems even /sbin has been merged with /bin (in turn linked to /usr/bin).
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/bin confused me for a while because I thought it meant 'this stuff is trash, don't worry about it'.
Why is /mnt a "temporary" mounting point? I alwags put my permanent ones there. I'd say /media is temporary...
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If my /bin contains exe files, something has gone very wrong somewhere...
Also, all these infographics are a sad casualty of the /usr/bin merge.
Linux file system is ext* tho.
huh... an exe in my /bin ?
sus...
Is it just me, or are the definitions for /sys and /proc mixed up?
Nah, it's just that /proc is incorrect - it contains information about running processes, as well as kernel data structures as visible by the process reading them.
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wow i have needed this forever and im printing it and pinning it to my wall
I've been using Linux on and off for years and I've never really understood what these different directories are for. If I don't know where something is I just search for it, though more often than not whatever I'm looking for is somewhere in the home directory. I'm also not sure of the accuracy of this though. I have a VM in /run, and an SSD and thumb drive in /media. I would've expected these to be in /mnt.