OS-Linux-Local-FileSystem

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Many of the directory structures described below have permissions that are governed by Msec.

Root Directory Tree         * Owner.Group Mode Description
/home/ Mounted on its own partition so it is easily preserved over OS reloads.
admin operator.admin 2750 For non-root administrator home directories.
admin/operator A soft link to the local, non-root, primary administrator user.
admin/sysid_domain operator.root 2750 The _sysid_ is usually a hardware identifier combined with an OS identifier.

The _domain_ uses underscore separators instead of dots.
/home/admin/operator always points to one of these.
Some sub-directories are historical, for older operating system installations.
Some of the directories are backups of administrator users on other systems.

apps operator.cvs 2775 Directories for locally developed, or for software installed with 'make install'.
data operator.users 2755 Data directories for services, or for multi-user access.
data/media operator.media 2750
data/news news.news 2755
data/twiki apache.apache 2755
data/web operator.web 2770
devel operator.cvs 2775 Data directories for software development or software repository copies.
/media/ contains read-only mount points for optical drives.
cdrom operator.cdrom 2551
dvdrw operator.cdwriter 2551
operator.media 2551 Other /media sub-directories are read-only mount points for other media.

These folders usually are mount points for specific media.
For example, /media/mp3_blue is a mount point for a particular mp3 player that is blue in color.
and, /media/card/canon_8M is a mount point for an 8MB SD card that has a Canon brand imprint.
Autofs is configured to recognize the media by UUID, or some other distinguishing characteristic.

card/brand_size " " SD, or other types of memory cards.
gps/id " " Global Positioning System devices.
mp3/id " " MP3 players
/mnt/ Contains mount points for various drives.
cdrom operator.cdrom 2551
dvdrw operator.cdwriter 2771
floppy operator.cdwriter 2771
operator.media 2771 Other /mnt contents are read-only mount points for other media.

These folders are mount points for specific media, and use the conventions noted for /media

card/brand_size " " SD, or other types of memory cards.
gps/id " " Global Positioning System devices.
mp3/id " " MP3 players
kraydisk operator.admin 2775 Contains mount for a samba-based network-attached-storage system.
kraydisk/backups operator.bakadmin 2771
kraydisk/finance operator.finance 2771
kraydisk/media operator.media 2771