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| author | Thomas Piekarski <t.piekarski@deloquencia.de> | 2020-05-19 17:34:33 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2020-05-19 21:48:04 +0200 |
| commit | 3514b9beba14f4bf02eb63dc304212683baeebe9 (patch) | |
| tree | bb8a883ff1e608097c305e2186e95c684f264058 /man7 | |
| parent | 4fe3acd9e1197554001a93d61d4ec65a0b19745e (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-3514b9beba14f4bf02eb63dc304212683baeebe9.tar.gz | |
hier.7: Updating from FHS 2.3 to 3.0
Adding description of new directories (/run, /usr/libexec,
/usr/share/color,/usr/share/ppd, /var/lib/color), stating
/usr/X11R6 as removed and updating URL to and version of FHS.
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206693
Reported-by: Gary Perkins <glperkins@lit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Piekarski <t.piekarski@deloquencia.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man7')
| -rw-r--r-- | man7/hier.7 | 29 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man7/hier.7 b/man7/hier.7 index dab9483d78..44c3139f5c 100644 --- a/man7/hier.7 +++ b/man7/hier.7 @@ -161,6 +161,12 @@ This pseudo-filesystem is described in more detail in .I /root This directory is usually the home directory for the root user (optional). .TP +.I /run +This directory contains information which describes the system since it was booted. +Once this purpose was served by +.IR /var/run +and programs may continue to use it. +.TP .I /sbin Like .IR /bin , @@ -186,7 +192,8 @@ It should hold only shareable, read-only data, so that it can be mounted by various machines running Linux. .TP .I /usr/X11R6 -The X\-Window system, version 11 release 6 (optional). +The X\-Window system, version 11 release 6 (present in FHS 2.3, removed +in FHS 3.0). .TP .I /usr/X11R6/bin Binaries which belong to the X\-Window system; often, there is a @@ -296,6 +303,10 @@ which usually are not invoked directly. More complicated programs may have whole subdirectories there. .TP +.I /usr/libexec +Directory contains binaries for internal use only and they are not meant +to be executed directly by users shell or scripts. +.TP .I /usr/lib<qual> These directories are variants of .I /usr/lib @@ -385,6 +396,10 @@ or or .IR /usr/man . .TP +.I /usr/share/color +Contains color management information, like International Color Consortium (ICC) +Color profiles (optional). +.TP .I /usr/share/dict Contains the word lists used by spell checkers (optional). .TP @@ -421,6 +436,9 @@ same OS. .I /usr/share/nls The message catalogs for native language support go here (optional). .TP +.I /usr/share/ppd +Postscript Printer Definition (PPD) files (optional). +.TP .I /usr/share/sgml Files for SGML (optional). .TP @@ -523,6 +541,9 @@ Variable game data (optional). .I /var/lib Variable state information for programs. .TP +.I /var/lib/color +Variable files containing color management information (optional). +.TP .I /var/lib/hwclock State directory for hwclock (optional). .TP @@ -635,11 +656,11 @@ this directory holds temporary files stored for an unspecified duration. Database files for NIS, formerly known as the Sun Yellow Pages (YP). .SH CONFORMING TO -The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, Version 2.3 -.UR http://www.pathname.com\:/fhs/ +The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS), Version 3.0, published March 19, 2015 +.UR https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/fhs.shtml .UE . .SH BUGS -This list is not exhaustive; different systems may be configured +This list is not exhaustive; different distributions and systems may be configured differently. .SH SEE ALSO .BR find (1), |